about Octave's syntax

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Thu, 7/2/09, Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: about Octave's syntax
> To: "Sergei Steshenko" <sergstesh at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Søren Hauberg" <soren at hauberg.org>, "Eduardo Alejandro Cuesta Llanes" <eacuesta at estudiantes.uci.cu>, help-octave at octave.org
> Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 1:43 AM
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM,

[snip]

> IIRC, the license issues of BSD vs. GPL are fairly clear
> and well
> documented. A derivative work combining GPL and BSD must be
> under GPL.
> If you don't like it, don't make a derivative work - there
> are plenty
> of options.

[snip]

> 
> Obviously, most of the Octave language was derived from
> Matlab. I
> don't think the formal grammar for the latter was ever
> published.
> 
> -- 
> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
> Prague, Czech Republic
> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
> 

Sp, do I understand you correctly:

1) 'octave' is a derived work of 'matlab' - because of the language;
2) anything that uses 'octave' syntax is a derived work of 'octave', and
thus should be released under GPL ?

:-).

That was my point - the OP maybe wanted in no way his work to be considered
to be derived works of 'ocatave'.

Regards,
  Sergei.