Is this the appropiate list?

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Mon Oct 18 10:35:52 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:10 +0200, Xavier Amatriain wrote:
> I have sometimes seen extensions to the Matlab program that are
> published under the GPL. That is, a researcher implements some algorithm
> in Matlab and publishes on his/her webpage under the GPL. My question
> is: is that even possible? How can a piece of software that requires of
> something such as Matlab, which is definitely non-Free, using a non-Free
> language be published under the GPL?

1st question: yes

2nd question: the authors can add an explicit permission to link the
GPL'ed program they wrote against some proprietary library or program.

2nd question explored further: if said library or program is something
that is part of the proprietary system in question, then there's no need
to add an explicit permission. This is _not_ the case of MatLab.

Regards, Rui
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