Re: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] cfitsio license change
Hi Leo,
That's great news, thanks a lot for your work!
Regards
Aurelien
On 2024-06-13 18:51, Singer, Leo P. (GSFC-6610) wrote:
> Cfitsio 4.4.1 has been released now. They have dropped NOSA and switched back to their original license:
> https://github.com/HEASARC/cfitsio/tree/cfitsio4_4_1_20240606
>
> We are also expecting another cfitsio shortly that will have a slightly more mainstream configure.ac.
>
> From: Singer, Leo P. (GSFC-6610) <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>
> Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 18:21
> To: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> Cc: debian-astro@lists.debian.org <debian-astro@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] cfitsio license change
> Hi Ole,
>
> I am taking this up with management at NASA.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
> From: Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 15:00
> To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> Cc: debian-astro@lists.debian.org <debian-astro@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] cfitsio license change
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>
> Hi Aurelien,
> (Cc: debian-astro)
>
> Astropy just discovered [1] that cfitsio 4.4.0 is now under the NASA
> Open Source Agreement 1.2 (see licenses/LICENSE.txt). While this license
> is OSI approved [2], Debian sees it as not compliant with the DFSG [3].
>
> This license change was done silently, it is not mentioned in the changelog.
>
> I am not sure whether this is the reason that cfitsio-4.4.0 is not
> uploaded to Debian yet and if you are already aware of this. If we can't
> get the license change reverted, it would have catastrophic consequences
> for the astronomy ecosystem on Debian: many programs depend on it, and
> while we probably can still stick with an older version, the
> dependencies may come with updated dependency minversions in future.
>
> Probably the best way would be to contact upstream and discuss this;
> maybe you already did this? Or do you have other ideas how to resolve
> the problem?
>
> Best
>
> Ole
>
> [1]
> https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fastropy%2Fastropy%2Fpull%2F16456%2Ffiles%2F5a1843b2f9eda6fb367713460adba684bfc9e11f%23diff-8ca2fa953f583044439880e4fee715b2c92152e7f21b7f0ff630a0ab0d98249e&data=05%7C02%7Cleo.p.singer%40nasa.gov%7C3e2be44b51004fd80e9f08dc744821ed%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638513100355760894%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=N%2FJNB9NzzWZSDFRP9hdo9N%2B5XQgjAdi3GYoj7evI5ok%3D&reserved=0<https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/16456/files/5a1843b2f9eda6fb367713460adba684bfc9e11f#diff-8ca2fa953f583044439880e4fee715b2c92152e7f21b7f0ff630a0ab0d98249e>
> [2] https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopensource.org%2Flicense%2Fnasa1-3-php&data=05%7C02%7Cleo.p.singer%40nasa.gov%7C3e2be44b51004fd80e9f08dc744821ed%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638513100355771611%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=kp5HIPU518yTBRZ3Mq5FxF8tQPB3caFk6leNCKXB0rk%3D&reserved=0<https://opensource.org/license/nasa1-3-php>
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