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Re: Who uses Octave?
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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso |
Subject: |
Re: Who uses Octave? |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:47:54 -0500 |
On 7 February 2012 12:29, Julien Salort <address@hidden> wrote:
> "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think we all understand that the GPL clearly forbids distributing the
>> resulting binaries.
>
> I think I understood this. I still wondered if I could distribute the
> source code and Makefile.
If you've already written the code, might as well distribute it. It's
sad that it's tied to a non-free driver, but the code by itself is ok
to distribute.
>> If your intent is to attempt to avoid the terms of the GPL simply by
>> releasing a thin wrapper between Octave and a proprietary library,
>
> I personnaly don't attempt anything. I don't plan on selling
> anything.
Selling isn't a problem. Non-free drivers are.
> I don't have the knowledge nor the time to reverse-engineer their card
> and write my own driver. End of story.
Please don't look at it that way.
The problem isn't your code. The problem is that there is a non-free
driver. Sadly, you used it without demanding a free one. I don't even
understand why National Instruments won't provide one. It's
undesirable to promote the usage of a non-free driver by distributing
code that uses it, but if you've already written the code, it's
probably a bit worse to not distribute that code.
- Jordi G. H.
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