[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 19 March 2012 20:05, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 06:50:11PM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> On 19 March 2012 18:42, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
>> > In another 20 years, we will be in a situation where the Mathworks file
>> > exchange is a better source for Free software than Netlib.
>>
>> If they remove the "you can only use this code on Mathworks products"
>> clause, you may be right!
>
> -v please. I thought they were using plain and simple BSD?

Yes, which allows them to add restrctions like these:

    http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/termsofuse.html#content

This is the main reason why they insist on BSD only, because the GPL
won't allow them to add more restrictions.

- Jordi G. H.