Re: GUI in Octave

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 15, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Francesco Potortì wrote:

>> 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.

I'd agree that if it doesn't link to Octave there's no GPL violation but I 
think the result does quality as a "derivative".  So, it may be legal, but I'm 
not thrilled about it.

Ben