Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Joseph Wakeling <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Joseph Wakeling <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Mathworks-hosted GPL'd software
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 7:57 AM
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I wonder if I am confusing Scilab with some other
> non-free program
> > whose name starts with "Sci".
> 
> No, your memory was correct.  Scilab used to be
> released under a
> non-free license.

I'd put it differently. Scilab used to be released under a license which
was considered to be non-free by a group of people.

I as an end user couldn't care less - I had both the source and and the
executable available for my OS (Linux), so I was safe from vendor lock-in
and other unpleasant things like this.


Regards,
  Sergei.