On 2004-10-18 11:10:02 +0100 Xavier Amatriain xamat@iua.upf.es wrote:
[...] 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?
This looks like a variation on "If a programming language interpreter has a license that is incompatible with the GPL, can I run GPL-covered programs on it?" http://gnu.hands.com/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat (Summary: yes.)
I think octave can run some matlab programs, so maybe that will allow GPL matlab programs to be used on a free software system. http://www.octave.org/