Is this the appropiate list?

James Davis jamesd at jml.net
Mon Oct 18 10:21:43 UTC 2004


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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