Private company and code salvation

[David Bateman]

Olaf Till wrote:
> Maybe I am wrong, but if a company distributes proprietary mex-source
> code that compiles and runs with Octave, the company must surely claim
> that this is accidental, and the code is intended for Matlab. If they
> admit that the code is intended to run with Octave, they admit to
> violate the GPL. If the company provides funding or other support to
> Octave (wasn't this the original argument?) in order to keep their
> code running, how can they claim the code is not for Octave?
>   
Strictly speaking yes, but I'd like some sort of clear statement that 
this is a situation that the Octave developers understand and will take 
no action against the company in this case. In any case the defend of 
accidental support of code in Octave is independent of any funding 
legally and you'd have to establish a causal link between the two in 
court to take action. I'd say that would be an uncertain thing.

D.


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