On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, 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?
I believe that your question is answered, at least in part by
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat
Regards,
James
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