Søren Hauberg wrote:
> 
> ons, 03 12 2008 kl. 13:57 +0800, skrev LUK ShunTim:
> > IIRC, I recently read somewhere that licensing problem of arpack has
> > been resolved so it may be back in "main" again.
> 
> Do you have a reference for this?

http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/RiceBSD.txt

Looks definitive to me.  

Whether or not Debian agrees -- and I can't see why they wouldn't -- a
standard 3-clause BSD license is certainly compatible with Octave's
licensing.  There's no legal reason not to bundle arpack with Octave.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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