[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435214: Bug#435214: octave-sp: license is neither GPL-compatible nor DFSG-free

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I think that you are right: the sentence in the COPYRIGHT file is ambiguous
> and must be clarified.  However, before contacting the upstream author, I
> would like to know whether this package works with Octave 2.9.  Does anyone
> know?  I have never used the semidef-oct package myself...

Yes, it seems to work.  I just recompiled the Debian package for 
octave2.9, installed it, and tried a random lin_prog (linear programming) 
problem, and it looks okay.

Steven