Re: Woctave-another gui front end

[Francesco Potortì]

Sergei Steshenko:
>Metis _is_ open source.

No, this is wrong.

As you read at
<http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/faq?q=metis/metis/faq#distribute>,
Metis has restrictions on distribution (should ask permission before
distributing) and special restrictions on commercial distribution.  The
first goes against #1 and the second against #6 of the Open Source
definition that you find at <http://opensource.org/osd>, so Metis is not
Open Source Software.

As I explained in my previous mail, the same exact reasons explain why
it is not Free Software either (in fact, the two definitions identify
the same set of software licences).

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