From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Aug 8 19:23:21 2001 Subject: Wavelab (Was: save/load structured data?) From: adler at freenet dot carleton dot ca To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu cc: help-octave Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:35:00 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Water Schmeder wrote: > 1) I'm using WaveLab v802 for signal processing stuff... so far I have only > used a few functions. I have made several tweaks to the WaveLab files on an > as-needed basis in order to get them to run properly -- mostly its really > minor, peripheral stuff like loadpaths, graphics, etc. I searched the > mailing lists for info on Wavelab but came up pretty dry. Wavelab is open > source -- has anyone considered re-releasing a converted version which is > Octave-compatible? If not, would there be interest in this (besides my > own)? I've used wavelab a little under octave - it seems to work well except for the graphics stuff and the *mex files. There are *.m versions for each mex file, so that's not a problem, although it would be interesting to see if Paul Kienzle's octave/mex interface would work. However, the big problem is that wavelab is not open source. It's under a "not for commercial use" licence which is a real pain. I suspect that linking wavelab *oct files is not GPL-ok. I'm not sure what the rules for *.m files are - my understanding is that jwe does not interpret this as linking under the GPL, so running Wavelab *.m files is ok - except if you don't work in academia, in which case you are doing "commercial use"! There is a tonne of great mathematical code out there under this kind of ridiculous licence, which means that the mathematical open source community is kept way behind the rest of the OS world! _______________________________________ Andy Adler, adler at ncf dot ca ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------