compiling and linking against matlab

[Rainer Müller]

Hello,

On 2012-07-04 10:57 , Leo Singer wrote:
> I am a co-maintainer of a port (nds2-client) that has an optional
> MATLAB interface. The MATLAB interface takes the form of so-called
> MEX files, which are shared modules that are compiled and linked
> against MATLAB. I am consdering adding a variant to enable the MATLAB
> interface feature for this port. Would an optional variant that
> requires the user to have a commercial application be in any way
> against the policies of MacPorts?

This would be okay as long as selecting this optional variant changes
the license field correctly indicating that this contains
non-free/non-distributable binaries. Please check first what
implications linking against MATLAB has on the possible distribution of
binaries.

Rainer