From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Oct 30 04:04:17 2002 Subject: Re: How about this idea: Make a Octave IDE using eclipse platform From: "Yan Weng" To: Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:03:13 -0800 I think Java itself can't be a obstacle of GPL. If you look at http://sourceforge.net , you will see a lot of Java based GPL and LGPL projects. The Eclipse platform does have its own license, but that one is more flexible than GPL. So I think license is not a big deal here. Actually, I haven't thought about the license of my project yet. It's only in pre-alpha or plan phase and reading license statements is a headache. :) I guess I will put LGPL or similar license for my project if it keeps going. Anyway, my project will not affect the Octave project. My work may be adding some modules to Octave and GUI stuffs (plotting and simulation things). Any change made in Octave should still follow GPL. I do think there must be a way to keep open source development going. Maybe cygus, who is part of redhat now, is a good example. They pay to the relative open source developers when they get profits on selling the open source softwares, the famous gcc, gdb things. I guess this is a hot topic in the whole open source community. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurent Jacques" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:26 AM Subject: Re: How about this idea: Make a Octave IDE using eclipse platform > Hello, > > I'm not an Octave developer so I don't speak for the octave community. > I have however a question: "Is your future work compatible with the GPL or > are you simply open source fashion ?" > > I think that java can also pose some GPL compatibility problems even if it is > very portable. Comments ? > > This kind of questions are very important before any real work. > > Bye, > Laurent.