[Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Status of the Octave-Forge packages in Debian

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 19 March 2012 18:42, Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 02:37:44PM -0400, Nir Krakauer wrote:
>> octcdf and spline-gcvspl are the only ones of the packages listed that
>> I regularly use. They can be installed from within Octave, but Debian
>> packages would be convenient.
>
> octcdf is on the list, spline-gcvspl is non-free and without maintainer
> (which is the long version of "no").
>
> +1 for netlib, which after 20 years still doesn't put any license onto
> its files. It seems people in Netlib land never die and are always
> available for questions about their code.

Aw, give our ancestors a break. Back then nobody thought you could
copyright software....

> In another 20 years, we will be in a situation where the Mathworks file
> exchange is a better source for Free software than Netlib.

If they remove the "you can only use this code on Mathworks products"
clause, you may be right!

- Jordi G. H.