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Re: Legal issues
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David Bateman |
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Re: Legal issues |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:51:36 +0100 |
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Ron Crummett wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I am teaching a class right now that incorporates a lot of "MATLAB"
> demos - I do all of them in Octave. My students are unfamiliar with
> Octave but I plan on introducing them to it soon as a viable alternative.
>
> The other day I mentioned it to one of my students and he asked me about
> the legality of Octave - for example, MATLAB has a "butter" function for
> a Butterworth Filter, and Octave has a "butter" function for a
> Butterworth Filter. Is this copyright infringement of some sort? While
> I am positive that Octave is perfectly legal, I'd like a good
> explanation for my students. I am not well-versed in legal issues but I
> am sure that this issue has been dealt with before.
>
> Thanks,
>
Microsoft won this fight against Apple in the Eighty's... You can't
protect the "look and feel" of a program.
D.