This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU Octave interactive numerical programming language. GNU Octave was written by John W. Eaton . This package was first initially maintained by Andrew D. Fernandes who passed it to Dale Scheetz and then to Dirk Eddelbuettel . It is currently maintained by the Debian Octave Group . 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'.