From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Mar  9 08:28:20 1999
Subject: Re: Is there anybody out here? 
From: doolin at alpha-8 dot CE dot Berkeley dot EDU
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: "Matthew Valenta" <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com>,         "Octave Graphics" <octave-graphics@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,         doolin@alpha-8.CE.Berkeley.EDU
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 99 06:28:17 -0800


Yes, gnuplot is becoming a liability, mostly because
it is not GPL.

It might be worth trying to contact the maintainers
and see if they will change the license to GPL or
LGPL, failing that, contact the actual authors for
driver code directly.  

I am watching guppi pretty closely.  It claims to be
the main plotting engine for the gnome project.  If this
is true, it will be powerful, extensible, and 
GPL.  Something like that would provide a large head
start for any graphics front.

Actually, I don't really give a crap about a gui.  I have
just reached the limitations of what I can do with gnuplot.

I will start emailing the gnuplot folks, starting with 
A. Woo.  

Dave D