Re: GUI in Octave

[Francesco Potortì]

>I consider Xoctave to be a GPL violation. It is clearly derivative
>work of Octave,

>[1] To test this: could it work at all without Octave? Could it also
>be, say, a Matlab or Freemat GUI? If not, it's derivative work.

Well, if it just calls Octave and interacts with it using pipes or some
similar way of interaction, it is not a derivative: it just calls it.

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