Re: packaging PARI?
> Hm, could you check the tarball and see what the copyright says?
The sources to pari-1.39 in bo did indeed have a somewhat vague copyright (it
was aimed at the academic community, not the big bad world of the commercial
internet!)
The current version (2.0) has a copyright notice that allows for free
distribution of only unmodified source, only for non-commercial use. That
should be sufficient for inclusion in non-free, no?
> Could you also check with the last maintainer (if still reachable)?
The maintainer of the Debian package in bo is given as:
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>
Bug reports listed in the debian-qa archives indicate Pari was removed from
Hamm, because it isn't "DFSG free".
--
David Zelinsky
dsz@alumni.caltech.edu
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:
>
> David> I'm interested in having a Debianized version of PARI, the
> David> number-theory library and calculator. Though I'm not currently a
> David> Debian developer, I'm willing to have a go at maintaining a PARI
> David> package.
>
> Excellent!
>
> David> But I first want to ascertain its current status.
>
> Sounds prudent.
>
> David> It was included in bo, but has apparently been orphaned. However,
> David> it isn't mentioned on the WNPP page (I wrote to the WNPP maintainer
> David> about this, but got no response).
> David>
> David> In the debian-devel archives, I only found it mentioned in passing,
> David> along with a long list of other discontinued packages, with some
> David> vague statement about lack of copywrite file, or lack of maintainer.
>
> Hm, could you check the tarball and see what the copyright says? Could you
> also check with the last maintainer (if still reachable)?
>
> David> Is there some reason why it was dropped, other than just lack of a
> David> maintainer? Or, on the other hand, is someone already working on a
> David> PARI package?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
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> Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering
> a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match.
> -- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998
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