Re: Bug#619393: ITP: paw -- Physics Analysis Workstation
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
I am trying to contact the cern for clarification about the licence
>
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