[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* 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