The Mastrave project
Mastrave is a free software library written to perform vectorized computation and to be as far as possible compatible with both the GNU Octave and Matlab computing environments, offering general purpose, portable and freely available features for the scientific community.
The Mastrave project attempts to allow a more effective, quick interoperability between GNU Octave and Matlab users by using a reasonably well documented wrap around the main incompatibilities between those computing environments and by promoting a reasonably general idiom based on their common, stable syntagms.
Mastrave is free software, which is software respecting your freedom. It is offered to the scientific community to promote the development of a free society more concerned about cooperation rather than competitiveness, heading toward knowledge and culture freedom, which implies the possibility for motivated individuals to freely access and contribute even to the cutting-edge academic culture. This possibility relies on the development of tools and methodologies helping to overcome economic, organizational and institutional barriers (i.e. knowledge oligopolies). This is a long-term goal to which the free software paradigm can and has been able to actively cooperate.