Re: Banded matrix with dirty off-diagonal triagles

[Mario Storti]

>>>>> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:30:55 +0200 (MET DST), 
>>>>>      Michael Hanke <address@hidden> said:

> I am using UMFPACK from netlib.
> Michael

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Seems fine. However, it seems to me that their copyright notice is not
compatible with the GPL, if what we want is a sparse module coming
standard with Octave. Am I wrong?

Mario

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