How to get permission to publish my MATLAB programs?

I should like to publish MATLAB programs in the Internet site ResearchGate and in my new book. Now I have a "HOME" license. What license I need or maybe I can get permission from MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Jan]

"ResarchGate" means a scientific application. I'd expect that you need an standard, education or student version for publishing code. But to be sure for a legal question, contact MathWorks and ask them directly. Use the "Contact Us" link on the top of the page.

See your other question: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/367128-what-license-i-need

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

The Student license is only for matters directly related to course work (or other requirements of a degree), and publishing a book is not a degree requirement in any STEM degree I have ever seen.

Home license is only for personal use, and cannot be used for profit or personal gain (even for "reputation")

Thus, an academic or commercial license would be required.

However, you should contact the Books Program https://www.mathworks.com/support/books/join.html which if I recall correctly will grant appropriate licenses.

Note: any MATLAB code you have written is owned by you, and does not require permission to publish, provided that you stay within the restrictions of your license.

Answer 3

[Jens Geisler]

MATLAB Code is pure text you could write without ever using any MathWorks' products. I cannot imagine that MathWorks can claim intellectual property on text following the MATLAB language, its keywords or syntax.

Therefore, I would say MathWorks cannot impose any restictions on publishing just the code without any results obtained from running the code using MathWorks products (note: in many cases, the same code could be run using Octave).

[Walter Roberson]

Following your logic, anyone with a HOME license should be able to sell any code they develop in MATLAB, as long as what they ship is the code and not a compiled executable, since you "cannot imagine that MathWorks can claim intellectual property on text following the MATLAB language, its keywords or syntax"

The license restrictions are on the purpose of using MATLAB. The HOME license only permits using MATLAB for personal projects with no intention of earning money (or fame) from the projects. If you can somehow write book-quality MATLAB code without using MATLAB, without testing it in MATLAB, then you do not need any license for that -- but you need a Standard (commercial) license or one granted by the Mathworks Book programme to do the software development work in MATLAB.