Re: [OctDev] Octave-forge packaging

[Dmitri A. S. <das...@gm...>]

Paul Kienzle wrote:

> 
> Personal views aside, I'm content to remove any of my code from 
> octave-forge if John believes it violates his license.  That includes 
> gcv since I'm responsible for putting it there.  You will have to decide 

I would argue again that only gcvsplf.f should go. I thought we agreed
that distributing the source to a program that uses proprietary library
does not violate GNU, but rather being "pretty useless in a Free world."
It is quite feasible that one can produce a free replacement for gcvsplf
based on the paper:

H.J. Woltring (1986), A FORTRAN package for generalized, cross-validatory
spline smoothing and differentiation. Advances in Engineering
Software 8(2):104-113 (U.K.).


> - Paul
> 

Dmitri.
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