From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Feb 1 11:31:41 2000 Subject: Licensing issues for Octave code derived from Netlib, Statlib, et c?? From: Robert Dodier To: "'help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu'" Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:33:47 -0700 Hello all, Octave is a wonderful program, and I feel lucky to have come across it. To make Octave still more wonderful, I am considering porting some of my favorite code from Netlib. But I wonder what the licensing issues are. Octave, I know, is GPL'd. Can one make a translation of Netlib code and GPL the translation? Part of the problem is that licensing for Netlib code is ambiguous, at best. Some files show copyright notices, but few show license information. I've written to the Netlib maintainers, and they replied that they are encouraging authors of new submissions to put a license statement in their programs, but that doesn't fix the mountain of existing programs. I looked through the documentation at the Octave web site, but I was unable to find a discussion of licensing issues for Octave software derived from web repositories. I look forward to your comments. --Robert Dodier ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html How to fund new projects: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------