Hello, A new version of Scilab (a matlab-like program) is out, and they claim this version to be free. (for now, it is in the non-free part of debian)
Extract from the announcement: | Others improvements | ------------------- | A more explicit "free licence". It is no longer required to send back | any notice. [...] | Is it really free? | ------------------- | | Yes it is. Scilab is not distributed under GPL or other standard free | software copyrights, but Scilab is an Open Source Software as stated | precisely in the Copyright file licence.txt. This file is available online at the adress: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/license.txt I would like to have your input on the DFSG complience of this licence. Some points are not so clear to me, but I far from being an expert of theses kind of questions. Thanks for telling me what you think of this licence. Bye, Mt.
