Re: Please help freeing libcolt-java [Was: Update on Trinityrnaseq packaging]
Hi Markus,
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 06:11:47PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> I think Emmanuel has already pointed in the right directions. Just to
> clarify what exactly is controversial or difficult and has to be done.
>
> The *.java files under src/hep/aida/ in Colt belong to the freehep-aida
> project at http://aida.freehep.org/ and are licensed under LGPL-2.1. I
> have checked out the CVS repository and the source files are accompanied
> by the full LGPL license in LGPL.txt. No signs of exceptions.
>
> The files under src/hep/aida/ref can be traced back to freehep-jaida
> http://java.freehep.org/jaida/. The source files are located in a SVN
> repository:
>
> svn checkout svn://svn.freehep.org/svn/freehep/trunk/jaida jaida
>
> See freehep-jaida/src/main/java/hep/aida/ref
>
> It looks like most of them are very similar to the ones you can find in
> colt. All jaida files are also licensed under the LGPL-2.1.
I tried the stupid approach and simply replaced the affected files
IAxis.java IHistogram*.java
by the equally named files I found in SVN. But this was probably to
simple and did not build. I guess this approached needs somebody who
has some basic Java experience.
> That leaves src/hep/aida/bin where I couldn't find correspondent files
> on freehep.org. That means you probably have to remove the whole
> directory and try to recompile colt. Every class that imports
> "hep.aida.bin" will need a patch or has to be excluded as well.
I could imagine that this would work. Any volunteer?
> I have not verified how Apache Mahout can replace the affected
> functionality and whether it is possible at all.
>
> So far
Thanks for your helpful hints
Andreas.
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