
This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU Octave
interactive numerical programming language.  GNU Octave was written by
John W. Eaton <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>.

This package was first initially maintained by Andrew D. Fernandes
<adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca> who passed it to Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
and then to Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.  It is currently maintained
by the Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>.

The original sources can be obtained at
	ftp://ftp.octave.org
	http://www.octave.org

See /usr/share/doc/octave/changelog.Debian.gz for details on the
applied changes.

GNU Octave is Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2009 John W. Eaton

    Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
    Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
    version.

    Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
    ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
    FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
    for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
    with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
    02110-1301, USA.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
