eigs and ARPACK

[John W. Eaton]

On  3-Dec-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:

|   It was just pointed out on the Octave-Forge list that ARPACK seems to
| have been released under a standard BSD license [1]. Doesn't this mean
| that we can move the code from the 'arpack' package into core Octave,
| which would give us the 'eigs' and 'svds' functions?
| 
| Søren
| 
| [1] http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/RiceBSD.txt

Yes, this is great news.  Would someone like to prepare a patch?

jwe