Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?

I agree. However someone (rms?) is going to have to deal with the legal
escalation when Apple locks down their machines to appstore-only
distribution. There is no Octave iOS distrib, and I'd really like one, so
I've noticed there is an issue here.

Edmund

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Sergei Steshenko <[email protected]>wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
> > To: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
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> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: [fink-core] Running Octave from Fink?
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> > 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.
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> >>  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.
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> >>  - Jordi G. H.
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> >
> > Right.
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> > The issues here are:
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> > 1)  Fink, Homebrew, and Macports are fundamentally source-based, so they
> > don't provide binaries.
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> > 2)  Octave doesn't have official OS X binaries currently.
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> > 3)  We  don't know of a workable free alternate build toolset.
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> > 4)  OS X users who want Octave need to get it _somehow_.
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> > 5)  Nobody has time to work on issues 1-3. :-)
> > --
> > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
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> "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.
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> Regards,
>   Sergei.
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