From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec  2 16:27:10 1998
Subject: Commercial use of Octave
From: Krzysztof Gozdziewski <chris at astri dot uni dot torun dot pl>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:24:43 +0100 (EET)


Hello,

please explain me under which conditions is it possible 
(if at all) to use octave or parts of it (for instance liboctave) 
in a commercial project. I am not sure of my interpretation of GNU GPL.
To be more specific: suppose one wants to write a program and use
in it a library of octave. Are there conditions under which it is 
possible to sell the executable without its source code?. I think no,
but I suppose that the GNU compilers are used to produce commercial
applications.   

Please excuse my if my question is dumb.

 
kg

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Krzysztof Gozdziewski
Toruńskie Centrum Astronomiczne (Toruń Centre for Astronomy)
http://www.astri.uni.torun.pl/~chris