Martin Helm wrote: > Wouldn't that logic mean that the validity of a BSD or GPL license depends on > the fact from where the source code is downloaded? > Then nobody can ever use any GPL or BSD licensed code, since it nether can be > asured that such a code is not at any time in the past downloaded from a > place > where an additional ToS is placed in addition to the original license. > Either a code is licensed as BSD (in that case) or it is not. If it is BSD it > is BSD. > If that does not hold, all kind of free licenses around out there on the net > are worthless. > > - Martin > > Yes limiting the BSD via the ToS is what is really disgusting on the part of mathworks probably has no legal basis. But if we as Octave developers give legitimacy to mathworks claim then they might be used in court for any violation of their ToS that put code directly downloaded from mathcentral into Octave.
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