From help-request at octave dot org Mon Apr 18 12:52:35 2005
Subject: Re: WG: Tools for mathematical calculations and graphical output
From: Ludovic =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E9net?= <ludovic at penet dot org>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:47:54 +0200

Le lundi 18 avril 2005 à 19:38 +0200, Gunnar a écrit :
> > Main topics are:
> >    Price
> >    Platform, Windows / Linux
> >    Input in a form or Input at a "line"
> >    Usability of scripts..
> >    Format of graphical output (jpg, postscript..), 2D, 3D,
> Maxima is a "Common Lisp implementation of MIT's Macsyma 
> system" (maxima.sf.net)
> maxima is only for symbolic computations, as far as I understand.
> 
> I didn't find Scilab in your presentation.  (scilab.org)
> Scilab is more or less equivalent to octave and matlab, and it's free.
...as in free beer, not as in freedom.

SCILAB licence restricts commercial use : it does not allow commercial
distribution of a modified version.

See http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/legal/index_legal.php?page=faq.html
and
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense

Regards,

Ludovic



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