Re: Compiling Matlab package under Octave

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Mon, 4/30/12, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Compiling Matlab package under Octave
> To: "Friedrich Heusler" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 5:43 AM
> 2012/4/30 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <address@hidden>:
> > There is no hope of making this work in Octave without
> the source
> > code. Try contacting the authors to see if they can fix
> this.
> 
> Reading their horrible license:
> 
>     3. You may not rent or sell any part of
> EasySpin.
> 
>     4. You may not use or modify EasySpin or a
> part of it for other
>        software which is not freely
> available at no cost.
> 
>     5. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or
> disassemble
>        EasySpin.
> 
> i.e. "you may not use this with Octave, and you are not free
> to modify
> or understand how it works". By way of comparison, you may
> sell, rent,
> modify, use, decompile, and reverse engineer Octave.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
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The license is not much worse than GPL.

They even promote free software:
"
4. You may not use or modify EasySpin or a part of it for other software which 
is not freely available at no cost.
".


And no, I do not believe that the only true definition of free software is the 
one of FSF.

Regards,
  Sergei.