[Bug 214967] Review Request: arpack - Fortran77 subroutines for solving large scale eigenvalue problems

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Summary: Review Request: arpack - Fortran77 subroutines for solving large scale eigenvalue problems


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------- Additional Comments From rpm at greysector.net  2007-03-27 13:48 EST -------
(In reply to comment #22)
> Well, I guess that's what I (and octave's author) don't understand. While the
> advertising clause is apparently non-binding and likely unenforceable, it does
> appear to make it technically incompatible with the GPL. That makes it
> impossible for octave, a GPL program, to link to it. So, we can include this
> in Fedora, but other Fedora programs can't link to it? My interest in getting
> arpack into Fedora was for the benefit of octave. Maybe this should be taken up
> with the FSF.

I'm interested in arpack for the benefit of freefem++, which is LGPL, so don't
say that "other Fedora programs can't link to it".

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