Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mika Pflüger <debian@mikapflueger.de> wrote: > It seems that PAW is upstream dead (last activity on the website was in > 2006, the last release of PAW was in 2002, the cernlib site states in > red: 'The development and support for CERNLIB has been discontinued. > Libraries will be continued to be provided "as is"'), additionally I > don't see it being GPL-2+ licensed, at least I couldn't find any file > stating this (I searched in the 2006 tarball obtained from > http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/version.html, maybe there is another > version?). Additionally, in the tarball are quite a lot of files that > are definitively not GPL-2+, although they arguably don't belong to PAW. > An example would be the file > 2006/src/packlib/fatmen/scripts/unix/ctab_root.dat > which contains: > # (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 1989,1991 > # All Rights Reserved > # Licensed Materials - Property of IBM > # > # US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or > # disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. > with no further licenses. This doesn't sound like GPL-2+ > > Additionally, it seems to be utterly undocumented - I wanted to test if > PAWs is useful at all nowadays but couldn't figure out how to build it. > > Maybe I missed the right tarball or am just to thick, but to me it > looks rather unclear if this software is worth the hassle. These ITPs would be tagged ITA rather than ITP if the CERNLIB-related packages were not removed from unstable about three weeks ago[1]. The former maintainer, Kevin B. McCarty, has made them DFSG conformed and I will follow his work. We are also planning to fork a free version of CERNLIB. Thank you. Mathieu, yes, I will set the Debian Science Team as co-maintainer. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/03/msg00009.html Kind regards, - Lifeng --
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