Re: globus

[Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:59:58AM -0500, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
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> [Traylen, SM (Steve)     Wednesday 13 February 2002 04:47 am]:
>    |  Just wandering if anyone was doing anything with globus toolkit on
>    | Debian. Steve
> actually considering netsolve might be worthwhile too
> I haven't checked the license though
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> [netsolve]
> http://icl.cs.utk.edu/netsolve/

if there is a real need, I can do that. I know NetSolve internals quite
well, since my PhD is about such environment, and since I hacked around it
for various resons (like modifying the scheduler).

Version 1.4 use autoconf, so it should be easier to build the debian
package. The problem is its heavy use of environment variables (which are
forbidden by the policy).

License:
This software probably belongs to the Regents of the University of
Tennessee, so you can copy it, but you can't use it to
make any money. 
-> non free.

> [globus]
> http://www.globus.org/

I'm quite involved in this, too, and I would like to help. But I guess we
will run into the same problem than with openoffice: lake of modularity...
I've heard about GPT, but AFAIK, gpt2 is underway, and has currently some
limitations, like the impossibility to build several binary packages from
the same source packages, and some features not in Debian packaging system,
like the fact that, depending on autoconf magic, the binary package will not
be the same (different content and name).

No idea about the license.

I would like to add another project:
[nws]
http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu

The Network Weather Service is a performance forecasting system used in the
two above projects. It is packaged on my home page:
www.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/deb.html

Licence:
This software probably belongs to the Regents of the University of
California, so you can copy it, but you can't use it to
make any money. 
-> non free

And yet another one:
[Ninf]
"http://ninf.apgrid.org/welcome.shtml

which quite comparable to NetSolve.

The tarball don't seem to contain any license statement...


Don't let all these licensing issues scary you. All these project are
academic ones, and I guess no intention to make the license non free, or to
look the projects up there. I guess nobody contacted the authors to ask to
change it. For example, atlas [atlas.sourceforge.org] was developped in the
same team than netsolve, but got a free license when users really asked for
it...

Bye, Mt.

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