[Bug 470173] Review Request: m4ri - Linear Algebra over F_2

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--- Comment #6 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2008-11-09 23:21:56 EDT ---
Note that if we only trust the code and docs in the tarball, the license is
GPL+ as far as I can tell.  If we additionally consult the web site, its
GPLv2+.  Unfortunately we have to be precise here.  Ultimately, clarification
from upstream is the best step.  An email from them is sufficient; a fixed
tarball is ideal but not necessary.  Otherwise we'll wait to see what the legal
folks have to say.

The new package builds fine; rpmlint spews a no-documentation complaint about
the -static package but that's nothing to worry about.

About the library versioning thing, my concern is that something built against
this package will end up needing -devel installed at runtime because the linker
won't understand the different versioning convention and will end up with a
dependency on libm4ri.so instead of libm4ri-0.0.20081029.so.  This should be
relatively easy to verify if you have some software which uses this library
around to check.

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