Re: Octave on Android

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:21 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

On 10/22/2013 03:58 PM, c. wrote:

As an example, here is the script that Thomas used to produce Mac OSX binaries at the time of his very sucessful Octave-3.2.app distribution:

http://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/octave-forge/admin/MacOSX/Octave.app/create-3.2.3.sh

That is indeed no more than just a long series of download/configure/build/install instructions, yet we did appreciate him sharing it ...

Even though a shell script like that includes URLs for the source
packages and a set of instructions for building, it does not
necessarily satisfy the source distribution requirement of the GPL if
the targets of those links are not under the control of the person
distributing the binary.  It is very likely that they will eventually
quit working and it is also possible that the target file could change
from what was used to build the binary even if the name of the file
does not change.  The person distributing the binaries must be able to
ensure that those files remain available and that they are the corresponding source for the binary that is distributed.

AFAIK, this requirement of the GPL has not been met for the Windows
binaries that have been distributed from the Octave Forge site.

It's probably safer to remove all those binaries from Octave Forge site.

Michael.