A MATLAB license for an individual researcher

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Mariusz Matusiak 2024-7-23

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移动：Steven Lord 2024-7-23

Hi,

Since I faced some non-consistent answers in relevant MathWorks forums [1-3] I would like to clarify a few doubts I have regarding MATLAB licensing. I defended my PhD two years ago. As of now, I am no longer associated with any university or company using MATLAB. As a hobbyist, in my spare time I work individually on some non-commercial computer science research projects. I plan to publish the obtained simulation results and parts of MATLAB code in two research papers and a book (containing my PhD thesis with minor improvements).

Is the MATLAB Home license sufficient for my needs? The commercial license seems way too expensive and irrelevant in this case (not earning money), and for the academic license, I guess I would need to be an "degree-granting institute" which I am not. I would also like to avoid rewriting all scripts I wrote during my PhD research to Python or Octave.
What is the actual MATLAB usage covered in licenses? Some time ago on the MATLAB website https://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing.html?prodcode=ML&intendeduse=home it was mentioned that one was not able to do research and publish results using MATLAB Home. I can't see this note anymore. Now there is only "For personal use only. This license option is not for government, academic, commercial, or other organizational use". So, can I publish results (e.g. using the MATLAB plots)? Or can I publish MATLAB code only? Or can I only run such code? I can find plenty of blogs with hobbysts' projects in the Internet using MATLAB, fully documented, so the "hobbyist" term remains not clear to me. For instance, if I write a C++ library under the Apache/MIT license which do some FFT computations under the hood, will I be able to use MATLAB Home just to verify solutions numerically?

Sincerely,

Mariusz M.

[1] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/376174-how-to-get-permission-to-publish-my-matlab-programs

[2] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/388329-what-a-license-i-need-to-publish-my-program-in-an-internet-site?s_tid=answers_rc1-3_p3_Topic

[3] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/349000-does-a-home-license-allow-for-research-and-publishing-results-technical-papers-as-an-individual-o#answer_274396