Package: octave
Version: 1:2.1.73-13
Severity: minor
The /usr/share/doc/octave2.1/copyright file incorrectly states that
Octave is GPL version 2 only. In fact, every source file contains a
copyright statement like the following (from src/octave.cc):
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
This file is part of Octave.
Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or
(at your option) any later version.
This has also been confirmed by JW Eaton:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general/14074
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages octave depends on:
ii octave2.1 1:2.1.73-13 GNU Octave language for numerical
octave recommends no packages.
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