Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X Yosemite)

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Carnë Draug 
> To: Sebastian Schöps ; Tatsuro MATSUOKA 
> Cc: octave-maintainers
> Date: 2016/6/5, Sun 07:55
> Subject: Re: Octave for OS X (was: How to install Octave 4.0.1 on OS X 
> Yosemite)
> 
> On 4 June 2016 at 20:34, Sebastian Schöps <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  Carnë Draug wrote
>>>  There is still the problem that a homebrew build is not a build with
>>>  free tools.  I was under the impression that wouldn't be acceptable
>>>  on the gnu servers.
>> 
>>  Which tool is not free? Homebrew is under BSD license. MacOS itself is not
>>  free but that would imply that you cannot upload any stuff for Mac?
>> 
> 
> You can upload stuff for Mac.  Just not something built on MacOSX.  The
> issue is not limited to clang, homebrew uses either Oracle's or Apple's
> build of java instead of building openJDK from source.
> 
> At least this is my understanding of the situation.
> 
>>  Carnë Draug wrote
>>>  Octave Forge has historically been the place to distribute such
>>>  non-official builds.  I can upload them there if you want it.
>> 
>>  So let's do it? I will send you links to the dmg files.
> 
> Yup.  Send them to me.
> 
> On 4 June 2016 at 21:45, address@hidden <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>>>  > There is still the problem that a homebrew build is not a build 
> with
>>>  > free tools.  I was under the impression that wouldn't be 
> acceptable
>>>  > on the gnu servers.
>>> 
>>>  Which tool is not free? Homebrew is under BSD license. MacOS itself is 
> not
>>>  free but that would imply that you cannot upload any stuff for Mac?
>>> 
>>  If it the true, windows binary cannot be appeared on the official download
>>  site because windows is also non-free.
> 
> Where it is used, is not the issue.  The issue is how it is built.  The
> windows binaries are actually built in Linux with free tools only.
> 
> Carnë


OK.
I understand the situation.
The octave-forge distributes old octave-3 for Mac.
Then as Carnë told, the Octave-forge is not but choice to distributes a new Mac 
binary,
I think.

Of course, I am not a Mac user so that I will not say further.

Tatsuro