Re: Installation of 3.8.2 on Mac

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If the Octave.app includes a link to our site allowing download of the
  > identical release, then is that not close-to or completely in compliance
  > with the GPL and AppStore rules?

You're proposing to post a trivial program that says where to get Octave.
All it has to do is point a browser at a certain web page.

It would be a separate program from Octave, so it wouldn't violate the
license of Octave.  It would have to be nonfree, to satisfy Apple's
rules.  But if it is just 3 lines, well, a 3-line nonfree program that
only asks to display a certain web page is not a serious wrong.

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