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Re: Function shaperead for octave


From: Alain Foehn
Subject: Re: Function shaperead for octave
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:58:23 +0200
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Hey !
Sorry for the delay of my answer.
I will study a bit more the package I found and then contact the owner to see if we can integrate it under GPL compatible licence to future Octave versions.
I'll keep you informed when there is something new.
Thanks for your support !
Alain


Le 04.10.2012 22:35, Juan Pablo Carbajal a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<address@hidden> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Alain Foehn <address@hidden> wrote:
Hey all,
Thanks for your support and your quick answers this afternoon.
With further investigations, I found a package of functions for Matlab
working also under Octave having a function m_shaperead that does almost
what I am looking for. Just outputs are slightly different, but this
function is of great help. The package is available on

http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html

I think it would be a good thing to have such a function available in a
"official" package for octave. I don't know the procedure for such an
addition, mostly with a function written by someone else. I think some other
functions could also be added to the mapping package of octave and would
reinforce Octave strength in GIS field (I am a new engineer in a Alpine
environment research centre and trying to show how Octave could be a good
replacement to Matlab, so such arguments are welcome...).
I will probably work on it next week a bit. Would you be interested by the
modified version (I had some warnings of "matlab-looking syntax" or
something like when I did tests today).
Thanks a lot again and greetings,
Alain
Hi Alain,

Great job! Sadly the code is proprietary and cannot be distributed
with GNU Octave unless we get the owner to release under a GPL
compatible license.

The procedure is as follows. Just write an e-mail to the owner of the
package explaining our needs. Read these examples that I have send in
the past:
http://wiki.octave.org/Asking_for_package_to_be_release_under_GPL:_exmaples

Use them as templates if you want. I particularly like the ones I sent
to the Non-negative matrix factorization people. Do not forget to add
the OctaveForge mailing list (address@hidden) in the
CC.

Once we have the package under GPL we can start the port.

Thank you!

--
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
I am adding José to the list of e-mails. He is our mapping expert ;)

@José: What do you think of this package?
http://www2.ocgy.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html Does it complement octPROJ
nicely?





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