Le 02/10/2014 21:25, Ole Streicher a écrit : > Thibaut Paumard <thibaut@debian.org> writes: >> Le 02/10/2014 14:29, heroxbd@gmail.com a écrit : >>> The casa table format is open, so the binary generated data can be >>> converted back to ascii if desired. Therefore the transparency issue is >>> not that severe. >> If you can't do that, casacore-data will go non-free. If casacore-data >> goes to non-free and casacore depends or recommends casacore-data, then >> casacore goes to contrib instead of main. > > Formally this may be true; however I would not support (and not sponsor) > casacore going to contrib and casacore-data to non-free. Non-free and > contrib are not a real part of Debian, they are just there for a > pragmatic reason that some software just cannot released as free. > Hi Ole, Sorry I haven't made my point clearly: I agree with you, going to non-free/contrib is not the way to go. It is the consequence if casacore-data is not built from source and if casacore depends (formally or functionally) on casacore-data, respectively. I just wanted to make that point clear and to support your view casacore-data must be built from source. Kind regards, Thibaut.
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