[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3
John W. Eaton
jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Wed Sep 28 18:57:08 UTC 2005
On 28-Sep-2005, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| * 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
Maybe my message wasn't clear. We can't use that part of ufsparse with
Octave, whether in Debian or not. I think the worst case is that we
have to avoid the part of ufsparse that requires metis.
jwe
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