[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Wed Sep 28 18:54:27 UTC 2005
* John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> [2005-09-28 14:17]:
> OK. There is one problem. Cholmod from ufsparse requires METIS,
> which is distributed under terms that are not compatible with the GPL,
> so we won't be able to use it unless the license changes. David
> Bateman has asked the author about licensing, but I don't know the
> outcome.
Well, if the author does not change the license, either we don't use
METIS or Octave will have be excluded from Debian (or, at worst, the part
dependent on METIS). I hope the later won't happen.
--
Rafael
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