Re: Running Octave from Fink?
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.apple.fink.core,gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general |
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| Organization | Fink Core Team |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 11/9/12 3:39 PM, edmund ronald wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 11/9/12 12:38 PM, edmund ronald wrote: > > This discussion started with Gnu Octave. Octave is an interpreter, so > > there are no downstream products. > > Not quite true. Octave also has headers and libraries, and people can > write utilities that build against those, and any distribution would > necessarily involve Octave's license. > > In what way can Apple's shenanigans on > > OS X create issues for users here? They are executing their code > on the > > same non-free machine it was compiled on, and they have already agreed > > to said non-free environment. > > > > > I agree there is an issue, but OS X seems to be a poisoned well anyway > from the point of view of free software; I don't think any reasonable > amount of precautions could work against the world's most litigious > company. So maybe a warning is what is really required - I would suggest > "by abiding by the terms of the Xcode license you are violating the GPL > ***if you redistribute any results of the compilation***, and your > license to Octave would be cancelled. And maybe this is exactly what the > bright legal minds at Apple want. > > Edmund > > And how does one do this? In _Fink_ we use compiler wrapper scripts so that perhaps we can annoy our users with having this warning pop up every single time they try to build a GPL'ed package. Well, since the "fink" tool is itself GPLv2, maybe we'd have to do it for every operation--or we could switch licenses. But if users are building stuff by hand, then they're not going to see any such warning unless every GPL'ed package encodes a compiler detection step. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core