Re: Please consider a free license for Java Statistical Classes
Hi,
the contact address has bounced. Is there anybody who has any idea how to
contact the author Andrew James Bertie?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:56:53AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
> Debian with the objective to package free software in life sciences and
> medicine for official Debian. I intend to package ngopt[1] which
> includes a copy of jsc.jar.
>
> When checking the license of JSC[2] I realised that it is
> non-distributable by Debian due the restrictions of usage and the missing
> source code. Considering that the download page on one hand says:
>
> Version 1.0 This is an incomplete beta release.
>
> and on the other hand it seems not developed any more since
>
> Updated 15 August 2005
>
> I'm wondering whether you might consider to release the source code
> under a free license. This would probably help the usage in several
> free projects and possibly would enable some contributions to keep the
> code up to date.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for considering
>
> Andreas.
>
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngopt/
> [2] http://www.jsc.nildram.co.uk/terms.html
>
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