On 2/16/07, Baishampayan Ghose b.ghose@ubuntu.com wrote:
Scilab is neither a Free Software nor an Open Source Software, since it doesn't allow commercial distribution of a modified version. It's wrong for the organisers to create a confusion among the people by making such false claims.
site clearly says that their license does not comply with FSF
http://www.scilab.org/legal/index_legal.php?page=faq.html#q6
but the software can be categorized as open source s/w.
Harsh