[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3
John W. Eaton
jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu
Wed Sep 28 20:24:18 UTC 2005
On 28-Sep-2005, folajimi wrote:
| Pardon the interruption, but I was curious what METIS actually is. I found two
| products that go by that name. There is METIS [1]
This is the one that ufsparse depends on.
| However, I found some correspondence on the issue of licensing that dates back
| to June, 2001. The threads, [3] and [4] were initiated on a Debian mailing list
| by Eray Ozkural. As far as I can tell, the issue was at an impasse over
| legalese. Do you know what became of those efforts?
|
| (Please forgive me for rehashing the history; I was unclear about the status of
| the issue of licensing.)
I don't know any of the details, except that I think David Bateman has
asked the original author to consider releasing the code under a
GPL-compatible license.
jwe
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