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Re: Data Acquisition with Octave
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Juan Pablo Carbajal |
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Re: Data Acquisition with Octave |
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Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:15:37 +0100 |
>From GPLv3 Section 5
"A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent
works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work,
and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program,
in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an
“aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not
used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users
beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work
in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other
parts of the aggregate."
By using the non-free drivers are we making a combination such that
they form a larger program?
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Julien Salort <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> There is no legal problem sharing your source code, as long as you
>> don't distribute binaries compiled to the non-free driver.
>
> Are you sure ?
>
> Doesn't the GPL state that anyone should be allowed to distribute the
> resulting binary, anyway one wants ?
>
> If distributing the binary is forbidden, because it is linked to
> closed-source library, then there is a problem...
>
> However: I think the NI libraries are dynamic libraries (at least on Mac
> OS X and Linux, I'm not sure what the .lib file is on Windows)
> Therefore, I'm not sure if there is any NI code inside the OCT file
> itself... If the OCT file contains no NI code, then it is eligible to
> the GPL, is it not ?
>
> --
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on a mailing list?
>
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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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