Re: Freemat license issue

[Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>]

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Neil Williams ha scritto:
> Do you mean these are embedded source? Source code that already exists
> as a separate package in Debian should not be duplicated in NEW
> packages. Use the existing library support and remove the unwanted
> source files from your package source tarball.

minpack-dev Debian package provides the headers, man pages, examples,
and static library.
freemat needs some files (*.f) that are not exists as a separate package
in Debian


>> http://www.netlib.org/minpack/disclaimer)
>>
>> Can I claim that these files are under Minipack license, and write a
>> statement in debian/copyright?
> 
> No.
> 
> If there are differences, those differences still cause licence issues.
> If there are no differences, there is no point having the files in the
> source in the first place.
> 

I'm sorry, but I don't understand. There are no differences, but freemat
need those files for compiling.


Giuseppe.
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