Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?
Sergei Steshenko <[email protected]>
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----- Original Message ----- > From: Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> > To: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:49 PM > Subject: Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink? > > On 11/12/12 7:44 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> I don't think the issue here is a GPL violation at all. I was only >> slightly alarmed it might be, but I'm not anymore. >> >> The real issue is that in order to give free programs to users of Mac >> OS X we are first asking them to install a non-free compiler and agree >> to its restrictive terms. That they are already running a non-free OS >> isn't any reason to ask them to submit themselves to further >> restrictions. >> >> - Jordi G. H. >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-octave mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/help-octave >> > > Right. > > The issues here are: > > 1) Fink, Homebrew, and Macports are fundamentally source-based, so they > don't provide binaries. > > 2) Octave doesn't have official OS X binaries currently. > > 3) We don't know of a workable free alternate build toolset. > > 4) OS X users who want Octave need to get it _somehow_. > > 5) Nobody has time to work on issues 1-3. :-) > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Help-octave mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/help-octave > "5) Nobody has time to work on issues 1-3. :-)" - and it _really_ good - people care more about _practical_ benefits (getting Octave somehow) than GNU ideology. Regards, Sergei.