Re: [OctDev] Re: new release

[Stefan v. d. W. <st...@su...>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 07:42:27PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 12-Jan-2006, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>=20
> | Do you just need gcvsplf.f excluded, with a note to download it from=20
> | netlib?
>=20
> According to the FSF, "user does the link" still amounts to a
> violation of the GPL.

Not sure what you are trying to say, but it doesn't make sense to me.
Octave forge does not build binaries that are illegal to distribute.
If the user links such binaries and distributes them outside the
license, then that would be wrong.  But it is perfectly acceptable to
distribute source code that could be linked to a commercial library
under the GPL, right?

Regards
St=E9fan