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Re: Results of "social contract" survey

Nikhil Nair wrote:

[gnuplot, octave and oleo]

>Just curious: if these three packages forbid distribution of modified
>source,

AFAIK, octave and oleo are under the GPL, but they use gnuplot for
their graphics output (and would be pretty useless without it),
although it's only marked as "Suggests" in the Packages file.

gnuplot is also THE standard plotting and fit program among the
UNIX-minded academia.

Come to think of it, a lot of LaTeX style files have similar restrictions,
so we'd have to toss a lot of goodies from there, too.

If you want a main distribution that isn't usable for work in
Academia, go ahead and move that all to non-free...

>were we breaking the license restrictions when we distributed them
>in our old source format?

For gnuplot: technically, yes.
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