Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

[c. <car...@gm...>]

On 15 Sep 2012, at 12:18, Júlio Hoffimann wrote:

> Octave Forge packages on the other hand are much more like MATLAB Toolboxes, they're developed by MathWorks itself, and are part of the software atmosphere, really.
by the way:

1) Most Octave Forge packages are not currently developed by Octave developers

2) Not all Matlab toolboxes are developed by the Mathworks

Having toolboxes sold separately makes sense in the proprietary software world where
it has the purpose of asking users to by additional licenses.

As Octave is free software this makes little sense, if you think the functionality of
some package is of general interest to all Octave users, and there is an implementation
that meets Octaves quality standards then you might just want to propose to add that
functionality directly into Octave.

c.