A new release for GNU Octave

Re:A new release for GNU Octave by drdec on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:56AM (#25443235)

Can anyone expound on the question of if the disposition of Oracle v. Google (concerning API copying) has any bearing for Octave vis-a-vis MATLAB?

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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by jcranmer on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:32AM (#25443753)

Oracle winning would mean any project reimplementing another API would be at the mercy of the original authors' approval to be legal. I don't know how litigious Mathworks would be.

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