RE: Matlab Mex Interface

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Darrin Rothe wrote:

> Licensing shouldn't be an issue. I have permission from the university to
> release it into "the public domain." However, I intend to attach the BSD
> style license/disclaimer which exists with PostgreSQL. Matlab's license
> does not impose any restrictions on programs written using their API.
> However, to compile the routines, one would need Matlab installed in order
> to pick up some of their header files.

that's okay ... PyGreSQL needs Python, Perl needs perl, etc
... requirements won't limit its ability to be included, only licensing :)

>
> Darrin Rothe
> rothe(at)asu(dot)edu
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Hermit Hacker [mailto:scrappy(at)hub(dot)org]
> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 8:58 PM
> > To: Darrin Rothe
> > Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Matlab Mex Interface
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Darrin Rothe wrote:
> >
> > > We have recently developed an interface to PostgreSQL for Matlab.
> > >
> > > The interface is implemented as 'C' mex wrappers around libpq.
> > Most of the
> > > database connection and query execution functions are
> > implemented, and it
> > > supports default (text) and binary transfers directly into
> > Matlab variables
> > > (including text, integer, and floating point arrays).
> > >
> > > The functions have been tested on Linux, SGI 32 bit, and Windows
> > > architectures. Other architectures should be trivial to
> > support - just a
> > > matter of compiling.
> > >
> > > We would like to make this interface freely available, and would like to
> > > know how much interest there would be in the interface. Also,
> > would it be
> > > worthwhile to package and make available with PostgreSQL.
> >
> > the only problem that I could see with this is the license that it is
> > under ... if under BSD license, we could easily extend configure to have a
> > --with-matlab option ...
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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