Octave-forge and legal issues

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee.org> wrote:

> The octave-forge-mktarball.sh does basically what you described. I'm
> not familiar with the use of NoSource--I figured this out just now from 
> Maximum RPM. Is this the right approach? I haven't built the whole 
> package, but this seems do to what I want.

Why don't you just build from a tarball with the offending source removed?
I do the same for the mp3 decoder in bmp.

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