Questions on Labview 8.5 for Linux edition

Hi All,
I have some questions about LV 8.5 Linux edition:
1, Does it follow the GPL rules?
2, Which main distributions it supports?
3, Why I cannot download an evaluation edition?
Thanks.
David

DavidLee wrote:
Hi All,
I have some questions about LV 8.5 Linux edition:
1, Does it follow the GPL rules?
2, Which main distributions it supports?
3, Why I cannot download an evaluation edition?
Thanks.
David
1. LabVIEW is closed source and therefore the GPL does not apply to LabVIEW itself. It does make use of some external componanats that are under the GPL such as the kernel itself and the MESA library which is
2) look under www.ni.com/linux/support.htm#1. basically most recent RPM distributions should be fine but for non-RPM versions it installs reasonably well on recent systems. Got it to run on Ubuntu Feisty without real problems after installing RPM package support.
3) There isn't one. Since there is no license manager for non-Windows versions NI can not make an evaluation version that can be activated through a license key. This would require a separate build with reduced functionality to release as evaluation version, and the sales for LabVIEW for Linux do not justify that extra expense.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Message Edited by rolfk on 12-24-2007 10:01 AM
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CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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