[DebianGIS] [alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie: Re: Bug#540182: ITP: libgctp -- General Cartographic Transformation Package Library]
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:18:56 +0100
From: Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie>
To: "Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#540182: ITP: libgctp -- General Cartographic Transformation
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Good idea.
I'm packaging libGctp, as it is a subset of hdf-eos4 and hdf-eos5,
wanted for debian Meteorology.
This is quite an old bit of code, which I've gotten clarification on
licensing for.
Note that once the hdf-eos4 and hdf-eos5 libraries are packaged it
might be worth looking at libproj, which
incldudes an older version of hdf-eos4 but no hdf-eos5, and have them
use them.
Regards
Alastair McKinstry
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Alastair would you please also notify debian-gis list about prospective
> packages of interest? It would be nice adding them to the general
> list monitored.
>
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:20:24PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name : libgctp
>> Version : 1.0
>> Upstream Author : Abe_Taaheri Abe_Taaheri@raytheon.com * URL
>> : http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/USGS-GCTP.html
>> * License : Mixed public-domain and BSD
>> Programming Lang: C
>> Description : General Cartographic Transformation Package Library
>>
>> The General Cartographic Transformation Package (GCTP) is a system of
>> software routines designed to permit the transformation of coordinate
>> pairs from one map projection to another. The GCTP is the standard
>> computer software used by the National Mapping Division for map
>> projection computations.
>>
>> This library is used by hdf-eos4 and hdf-eos5, which have ITP's assigned,
>> as well as libproj internally.
>>
>> The upstream author claified the license situation:
>>
>> The GCTP was originally developed by USGS. For EOS (funded by
>> NASA) we took it and added a few more projections to be used by
>> HDF-EOS. Any one can use it or modify it (both commercial and
>> non-comercial) as long as it is acknowledged. If you want to use
>> it please use the latest versions ( see download at
>> http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html ). The
>> source code is packaged with hdfeos and hdfeos5.
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 5.0.2
>> APT prefers stable
>> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
>> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
>>
>>
>>
>
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