About:
Scilab is a numerical computation system similiar to Matlab or Simulink. Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions, and programs from various languages (such as C or Fortran) can be added interactively. It has sophisticated data structures (including lists, polynomials, rational functions, and linear systems), an interpreter, and a high-level programming language. Scilab has been designed to be an open system where the user can define new data types and operations on these data types by using overloading. A number of toolboxes are available with the system.

Author:
Ricardo Fabbri [contact developer]

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8.59/10.00 (4 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.scilab.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php
Zip:
http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://viewvc.scilab.org/bin/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/scilab/
Bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.scilab.org
Mailing list archive:
http://www.scilab.org/[..]s/index_contactus.php?page=mailing_lists
Mirror site:
http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: GTK
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		Free To Use But Restricted, Other/Proprietary License with Source, The CeCILL License
[Operating System]		Microsoft, POSIX
[Topic]		Education, Scientific/Engineering, Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics, Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization, Software Development :: Compilers, Software Development :: Interpreters, Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)

Dependencies: [change]
Tcl/Tk (Default branch) (recommended)
ATLAS (Default branch) (optional)
GTK+ (Default branch) (optional)
LAPACK (Default branch) (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	5.0.2	29-Sep-2008	The CeCILL License
Beta	3.1 Release Candidate 1	11-Apr-2005	Free To Use But Restricted

 Comments

[»] GPL/LGPL soon
by Ricardo Fabbri - Jul 10th 2004 16:41:24

Probably, Scilab will soon be GPL/LGPL, although this is extra-official. Currently it is open-source but the commercial use of its modifications must be approved by the authors. This is the only difference of its license to the GPL. However, the original authors showed commitment to approve the use of all its sourcecode modifications. The license is not GPL due to an historical reason only, but in practice it can be considered GPL, and it certainly will soon be officially GPL (or LGPL).

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