Re: Xoctave - Human interface to GNU Octave

[Francesco Potorti`]

>> Is it free software in the sense of
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html?

>According to the "license" page on the website it seems not:
>
>-----------------------------------
>Human Readable License of Xoctave

The license is not free in the sense of free software nor, equivalently,
in the sense of open source.  Attribution is okay, it is a standard
requirements even for free software.  What makes it non free is the "non
commercial" clause.  Free software (or equivalently open source)
requires no restrictions on usage, so unfortunately "non commercial"
implies non free :(

It would be nice if Xoctave's author considered switching to a free
license :)

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