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

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 06:50:11PM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 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....

I don't mind what they did back then. I do mind what they are doing
*today*:
	http://netlib.org/misc/faq.html#2.3

> > 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!

-v please. I thought they were using plain and simple BSD?

	Thomas