Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 23:18:35 -0800 From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Statement about Classic Matlab Message-ID: <32CF55CA.651C@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Hi, I've thought it and I'm not distributing any more copies of Classic Matlab. Although there is no legal reason not to distribute it (I never asked for a fee, I added the author's statement, and I made it clear that it was for non-commercial use). I don't want to become a distributor of this stuff; if I wanted I'd just sent it to an FTP site, they usually have more bandwith than I do. I felt I didn't have the right to keep the software only for myself. My interest was to avoid having a distribution of Linux's binary version when we could have our native, and somewhat updated, version. Now I have realized that much better software is available in the public domain already, and our efforts can be better placed in porting Rlab or any of the many lookalikes. The "Classic" version of Matlab is cute, but it has little or no resemblance with the commercial version: personally, I'm buying Linux's version from MathWorks. Pedro.
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