On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:45:52AM +0100, David Bateman wrote:
> Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have uploaded an installer of Octave 3.0.2 for win32 built with 
> > mingw32 on the octave-forge sourceforge hoempage. It's not perfect yet, 
> > but hey, then what is...
> >
> > I took the liberty of creating a new package named "Octave Forge MinGW 
> > Windows" and added a release of the Octave 3.0.2 installer.
> >
> > The installer contains a build of
> > *) octave 3.0.2
> > *) atlas 3.8.2 libraries
> > *) gnuplot 4.3.0-cvs-20080808 with michael's console patch and compiled 
> > with VOLATILE_DATA to allow mouse-zooming
> > *) notepad++ 5.0.3 as text editor
> >
> > It contains the gnu/gcc compiler used to build the package (TDM GCC 
> > 4.3.0-2) and a mini MSYS 1.0.11 environment.
> >
> > Additionally I added a few octave-forge packages, namely
> >
> >   
> Could you also add arpack from nonfree which adds the eigs/svds function 
> in the next release. Lots of people have requested these functions and 
> the restriction on the distribution of the ARPACK library is really minor.

Huh? I thought that the conclusion by both Fedora and FSF was that
ARPACK's license is GPL-incompatible:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234191

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have this stuff. Was there any action
that I overlooked?

        Thomas


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