Simulink-like thing for Octave (was: ?)

[David Bateman]

Eduardo Adam wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2008 11:38, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>
>
>   
>> On 26/01/2008, Enrico Bedogni <enricobedogni at msn.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> maybe it's a stupid question but i'm just started to use octave and i
>>> don't know if there is sonthing like simulink (as in matlab)
>>>       
>
> For people who work in Control System, the best option is Simulink (from 
> Matlab) because there are many toolbox related to control for Simulink.  In 
> that sense, maybe Scilab is a nice option, specially because it is a GNU 
> software but it is outside of the octave.  
> According to my knowledge, we don't have a toolbox like Simulink for octave, 
> and I don't know if there is some project for that.  
> It would be nice to have this toolbox ....
>
>   
It definitely isn't a "GNU software", and in fact its license is not GPL
compatible and its commercial restrictions painful for those of us
working in Industry. Though there has been rumors for a long while of a
change to a GPL license.. See

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense

D.

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