Talk:FOSS Education/Research using FOSS

= Changing the book = I've added several links to free software for scientists and also to some proprietary products (for comparison). I also wrote a little discussion about some of the projects from a technical perspective. My additions are very different in tone to the already existing material. I don't know if they are really appreciated. Please tell me! --EikeWelk 00:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

= Scilab License = Considering this is a discussion of FOSS perhaps the inclusion of Scilab, which is technically neither Free nor Open Source, should be reconsidered. Or its license could be noted, as it is in the Wikipedia entry. --71.235.217.36 08:42, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

The scilab license is here:, Wikipedia covers it: , the FSF does consider it non-free:. Someone now has to read, understand it and write someting about it. --EikeWelk 17:33, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I mentioned the the license situation by reproducing what Wikipedia and FSF say, and I removed the special mentioning of sofware packages in the introductory paragraphs. --EikeWelk 01:48, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Current version of Scilab v5 is released under a new license CeCILL v2.0, which is GPL compatible. This is acknowledged on the FSF website User: satish_annigeri Nov 1, 2010

Further Topics
What should be included into this article?
 * Computational geometry
 * GTS
 * CGAL


 * Mesh preparation (also computational geometry)
 * Salome


 * Simulation Codess