Scilab not free

[Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Paul Cochrane wrote:

> >Thought so, I am reading the manual currently. I hope I can create the 
> >plots
> >also with octave, gnuplot, R, or some other free software?
> That should be possible, but you'll have to jump through a couple of
> hoops first.  Scilab is free, and uses gnuplot, so you can use that

Not, it is not (as in freedom). See

  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/scilab

and (search for Scilab) :

  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

so I believe a connection to (really free) Octave would be a big plus
(no time to work on this myself though... sorry).

> >Is the documentation
> >"free"? It would be a shame to add a well documented package but being

> It's released under the GPL as well.

Great. Thanks.

Thanks for your work,
Frédéric Lehobey