Bug#435214: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435214: Clarification of licensing terms of semidef-oct

2007-08-06 Thread Lieven Vandenberghe
Rafael, I can see why our license is ambiguous. When we wrote it in 1994, we intended it to mean that the program is entirely free, for any purpose (including commercial) and without any restriction. If it is easier if we switch to a standard free license, I would choose the LGPL. Best

Bug#435214: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435214: Clarification of licensing terms of semidef-oct

2007-07-31 Thread Stephen Boyd
rafael, i am happy to switch the license to GNU, but of course we have to check with lieven. as a coincidence i will see lieven tomorrow, when we can send the final confirmation. however, it should be noted that semideg_prog is really quite old, and there are now far more recent solvers ava

Bug#435214: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435214: Clarification of licensing terms of semidef-oct

2007-07-31 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I am one of the members of the Debian Octave Group [1], which maintains the Octave-related packages for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Your semidef_prog software, which was ported to Octave by A. S. Hodel, has been packaged for Debian [2] since 1998. Only recently, it has been brought to our