On 15-Oct-1998, Joao Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | | > Hurrying before the slink freeze, here is my intention to package: | > | > Package: octave-plplot | > Version: 0.3-1
[...] | > [This will be a great improvement for Octave, IMHO.] | > | > Actually, I already packaged it. It is lintian-clean and all the demos | > are working. I have just a problem with the copyright, as there is no | > copyright notice in the upstream source. I obtained it from the | > octave-sources mailing list, so I am assuming that it is in the public | > domain. | | I know nothing about copyrights, so I include none in the sources. | My intention is that plplot_octave could be available in a future release of | Octave, if Octave's author wants to. If including it in a Debian release | disallows my intention, than I would not approve it. | | As I told before, my intention is to enable it to be used as Octave | is, with a GNU General Public License (which I have never fully read | :-)) . If you want to add/include in all modified sources or | scripts the GNU licence header, I will be happy (if this is still | possible after I have put the package un-intentionally in the public | domain). | | Anyway, I already have latter versions, but they are not packaged | for public usage. | | Thanks, | Joao | | PS- John Eaton: do you have any comments? I don't have any objection to this being distributed as a separate Debian package. Eventually, it may make it in to the core Octave distribution in some form, but I can't say yet when that might happen. Thanks, jwe