SNNS and another packaging script
Hello developers,
Currently I packaging the Stuttgart Neural Network Similator version
4.1. This software comes with a Readme.License which has the following
text in it:
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3. You may modify your copy or copies of SNNS or any portion of it
only for your own use. You may not distribute modified copies of SNNS
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You may, however, distribute your modifications as separate files (e.
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patch files) along with the unmodified SNNS software. We also
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encourage users to send changes and improvements which would benefit
many other users to us so that all users may receive these
improvements in a later version. The restriction not to distribute
modified copies is also useful to prevent bug reports from someone
else's modifications.
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The way we normally package and distribute the software (with a
modified source.tar.gz package) isn't allowed according to this
license. A while ago there was some discussion about another way of
building debian packages. A concept in which the original source, a
debian-diff part and the binaries where uploaded. If we would follow
an approach like this, SNNS (and a few others) could be included into
the distribution.
I remember someone who wrote a proposal for doing this and mentioned
to work on a script to deal with this approach. Who proposed this and
was some work done on this script? Are we going to switch to this way
of packaging (or at least after we made the release of 1.1)?
Erick
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Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
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