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No. Instead of asking us to change the licensing terms for Octave, we recommend that you release your program under terms that are compatible with the GPL so that the free software community can benefit from your work the same as you have benefited from the work of all the people who have contributed to Octave.
No. Instead of asking us to change the licensing terms for Octave, we recommend that you release your program under terms that are compatible with the GPL so that the free software community can benefit from your work the same as you have benefited from the work of all the people who have contributed to Octave.


=What's new in version series 3.4.N and 3.5.N of Octave=
=What's new in version series 3.6.N and 3.7.N of Octave=


The 3.4.N series has enough new features to justify a minor version number change. The full details are in the NEWS file, but in brief 3.4.N series brings:
The 3.6.N series has enough new features to justify a minor version number change. The full details are in the NEWS file, but in brief 3.6.N series brings:
 
* Perl compatible regular expressions
* a profiler
* broadcasting enabled for all built-in binary element-wise operators
 
Here are some features that have been around since 3.4.N


* Many improvements to native OpenGL plotting
* Many improvements to native OpenGL plotting
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* cells
* cells


The 3.5.N series is the current development release and will become a 3.6.N release in the future. This series brings the following new features:
The 3.7.N series is the current development release and will become a 3.8.N release in the future. This series brings the following new features:


* Perl compatible regular expressions
* Octave gui
* a profiler
* broadcasting enabled for all built-in binary elementwise operators


=What documentation exists for Octave?=
=What documentation exists for Octave?=
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