proposed FAQ entries about licensing

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Wed Apr 8 17:20:48 CDT 2009


On  8-Apr-2009, Judd Storrs wrote:

| To follow up and maybe clarify. If you were to compile the mex file
| using Matlab instead of octave, the resulting binaries would not
| contain links to liboctave or any other part of octave. They would use
| Matlab's mex.h in this case. So distribution of the compiled binaries
| would not depend on octave's license at all.

Correct, and they would also not work with Octave by default, because
I think they would be linked (probably unnecessarily) with some
Matlab-specific libraries.

jwe


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