From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Dec 3 12:26:43 1998 Subject: Re: Commercial use of Octave From: Joao Cardoso To: "John W. Eaton" CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 18:26:25 +0000 John W. Eaton wrote: > > On 3-Dec-1998, Krzysztof Gozdziewski wrote: > > | 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?. > > If you produce a derived work based on GPL'd code, you must also make > the source code to your application available under terms that satisfy > the requirements of the GPL. In the case of Octave does that mean that script (.m) files should also be made available, or just the source code for .oct files? If one produces an application with several components, should the application development sources be made available as a whole? Thanks for any answer. I don't want to hire a layer just to read the GPL, as I never could read more than a couple paragraphs :-) Thanks, Joao -- Joao Cardoso | e-mail: jcardoso at inescn dot pt INESC, R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094322 4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487