Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

Quentin Spencer wrote:
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> anyone out there tell me how this is done for Debian? Furthermore, I 
> wonder if it wouldn't be better to make the nonfree part a separate 
> package or remove it from octave-forge--does anyone even use it?

I like csaps (from nonfree/splines/). The only non-free file there
is gcvsplf.f (taken from netlib). I could not find any license info
on netlib, but octave-forge has  LICENSE.gcvsplf which pretty much
prohibits commercial use of the software (not commercial distribution,
as far as I can tell -- IANAL).

I do not use gpc (at least directly -- may be it is used by some
package), but I do not understand why it is in nonfree/ directory.
The license says:

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Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 2001, 2004  Rafael Laboissiere <address@hidden>

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.

   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
   of this document, or of portions of it,
   under the above conditions, provided also that they
   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.

>>>>

Looks quite GNUish to me.

> -Quentin

Dmitri.
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