Is this the appropiate list?

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-10-18 11:10:02 +0100 Xavier Amatriain <xamat at 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/

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