[GRASS-user] Open Source and the concept of reproducible research

[Hamish]

Michele wrote:
> > Hi, just a little evangelism,
> >
> > I've just been looking at a free wavelet toolbox for Matlab
> 
> I don't get the point, was Matlab GPL'd lately? ;-))


The WaveLab toolbox is a free download from Stanford Univ, not an
official toolbox from the MathWorks corp. I actually found the link to it
on an Octave website. Octave is GPL'd software which runs "in a way not
dissimilar" to Matlab. It will run most Matlab scripts with no or only
minor modifications.  http://www.octave.org

The issue of the Matlab engine being a black box link in the tool chain
is raised in the reproducible research PDF article presented on the
WaveLab website. Presumably ML can for the most part be classed in the
same bucket as proprietary C/Fortran compilers.


Hamish