Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Judd Storrs <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Jaroslav Hajek <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'd like to help but it appears I've lost sight of what you're wanting
>> to accomplish here. Is this now all about the crappy ToS instead of
>> the BSD license change?
>
> Ok. Well I don't think the ToS restricts the actions of the public
> browsing the site. Matlab asks you to agree to the ToS when you create
> a MatlabCentral account. Login is not required to download the
> user-submitted FX content.
>
>> As I said in my original proposal, I would collect them from the 
>> MatlabCentral.
>
> Let me first say that (as a user) if Mathworks was publicly publishing
> my email address, I would have a big problem with them. So, to verify
> your claim that you can obtain email addresses from MatlabCentral, I
> clicked on the most recent submission in FX. I did not see an email
> addresss. I clicked on the author info. I did not see and email
> address. I clicked on a link that says "contact author" and I hit a
> login screen. I don't have a MatlabCentral account. I don't know
> what's behind the login screen. It could be an email or it could be a
> web form.
>

Well, you got me there, I actually haven't yet tried to register. I
supposed that the emails are visible after logging in. If there's a
web form, maybe I should reconsider the whole plan, because I don't
very much like the idea of sending all the messages through the
MathWorks' site.

In any case if there are e-mail addresses, I'll simply collect them
and contact the authors. I'll share the list privately with others.

-- 
RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
computing expert & GNU Octave developer
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz