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Summary: Review Request: arpack - Fortran77 subroutines for solving large scale eigenvalue problems
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214967
------- Additional Comments From tcallawa@redhat.com 2007-03-27 10:05 EST ------- (In reply to comment #20)
Because it was unclear whether this license could be regarded as GPL compatible, the primary author of octave has not included some code that links to arpack. In separate discussions with him, he has asked whether there is any other discussion or reasoning behind the decision to accept this license now after it was originally considered problematic.
I didn't say that it was GPL compatible. We can ask the FSF if we want that ruling. The delay on the decision was entirely due to the fact that I hadn't yet looked at it (until yesterday).
If I had to guess, I would say it's not GPL compatible, due to the advertising clauses.