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

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Tue Jul 31 08:06:42 UTC 2007


* Steven G. Johnson <stevenj at fftw.org> [2007-07-30 14:02]:

> 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.

Thanks for this info.  I will contact the upstream author.

-- 
Rafael




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