Re: Fwd: Please release RC1 to octave/unstable PPA

[Mike Miller]

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 14:41:26 +0100, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Will do as you ask, but will take some time, since I will have to
> reconfigure first....

You only have to run the configure step to see whether the suitesparse
components including umfpack are detected correctly, right?

> But I am not sure what you say about licences is true any more:
> This page:  http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/faq
> says:
>
> Can I distribute METIS with my application?
>
> METIS as of 5.0.3 is being distributed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
>
> which is GPL-3 compatible.

The suitesparse-metis package in the Debian and Ubuntu archives is
currently built against the parmetis library, which has restrictions
on its use making it not free for all users.

-- 
mike