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From: Dan Sorensen<sorensen@rice.edu>
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Dear Mr. Bateman

I apologize for not responding to this previously.

The clarification we discussed is the following


The clause in the license statement  that states

>>Written notification is provided to the developers of intent to use this 
>> software. Also, we ask that use of ARPACK is properly cited in any 
>> resulting publications or software documentation.

has the following intension in your case.

We are asking for acknowledgment in FEDORA that ARPACK is
the software that underlies what corresponds to the  "eigs" command.   
There is no intention to pass on a requirement of notification of use
from users of FEDORA.   

This is the understanding we have with MATLAB for example.

If the above note or a slight modification of it is not acceptable
for the purposes of using ARPACK in FEDORA, I will have to refer
you to the tech transfer department of Rice University as I explained
during our phone conversation.

Once again my apologies for the delay and I thank you for your
interest in ARPACK.

Best Regards
Dan Sorensen



 



David Bateman wrote:
> Dear Professor Sorensen,
>
> Perhaps you have not yet seen the e-mail below, and so I draw it to your
> attention. Can you please examine the request to modify the license of
> ARPACK in this mail belong to allow its inclusion in FEDORA and other
> similar open source linux distributions?
>
> As the author of the eigs function for Octave (www.octave.org) that uses
> ARPACK for its functionality, I'd hate to see my work not included in
> Octave due to this question not being resolved.
>
> Best Regards
> David
>
>