Re: proposed FAQ entries about licensing

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Apr-2009, Svante Signell wrote:

| I'll try to clarify: If we develop entirely for use in Matlab and not in
| Octave it doesn't matter much if the library code is GPLed or not. We
| would probably be fully proprietary then, an no .m files or .mex files
| would be free. There is not much difference if the code only runs in
| Matlab. This is not our wish however, and we would like to make the
| toolbox run in both Matlab and Octave as well as in *nix and PC
| environments.

What prevents you from writing free software that works with both
Octave and Matlab?

jwe