On 10-Nov-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | I tend to think that such a change in Octave would be beneficial in many | aspects, including for fostering the use of Octave in academia. I have | already written Octave bindings for the CGAL (www.cgal.org) and the | Cubpack++ (www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~nines/software/cubpack/) libraries, but I | am afraid of releasing them, because of the potential GPL infringement.
I am happy with using the GPL for Octave. Aside from that, there are some practical problems to making a change in the license. First, there are many people who have contributed code under the terms of the GPL and who have not assigned changes to me, so we would need to contact all of them and get approval for changing the license. Second, Octave links with and includes directly code that is distributed under the terms of the GPL (various functions have been adapted from bash (and also I think Emacs) over the years, so we would need to deal with those parts as well. jwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
