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Re: casacore-data



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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