Re: Function shaperead for octave

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

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!

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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