[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 2.9.3

[John W. Eaton]

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