On 2014-08-12 09:00, Ole Streicher wrote:
Hi Michael,
I just accepted your request to join debian-astro. Welcome!
You write that you already have some experience with packaging,
especially gildas.
There was an earlier attempt to bring Gildas into Debian [1], but it
did not finish.
It appears that the last attempt failed due to some uncertainties with
the license of gildas. Their homepage still says: "GILDAS is freely
available to non-profit institutes on an "as-is" basis. No warranty at
all is expressed or implied. We are thinking about going to LGPL." But
that copyright notice seems to be dated 23-may-2004!
I have also been in contact with the upstream maintainers at IRAM who
seemed to be interested in my packaging efforts, but they never got back
to me.