Hello,
May we discuss scilab's license, please? Scilab is currently assumed to be non-free because of one sentence(1) in its license text http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/license.txt : Any commercial use or circulation of the DERIVED SOFTWARE shall have been previously authorized by INRIA and ENPC. But I suppose that is only relevant if someone wants to distribute scilab with another license. As long as everyone sticks to scilab's original license there seems to be no problem with commercial use and such a restriction is compatible with the DFGS http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html#guidelines (see paragraph 3). Please keep the Cc: to the scilab developers in your replies. They call their software 'free'---see http://www.scilab.org/ . Regards, Torsten Werner (1) The sentence appears twice in the license text. -- Torsten Werner, Dipl.-Phys. Dresden University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 351 46336711 / +49 162 3123004 http://www.twerner42.de/ telefax: +49 351 46336809
