> > > > I am one of the developer of Scilab. We are rewriting the GUI from > > scratch using Java (Swing) and JOGL. > > Since we prefer to have Scilab packages available (especially because > > Scilab is going to change his license to a free one), > > That's really good news! > Which license are you considering to switch to? It is probably going to be CECILL. > Firstoff, from a technical point of view, shipping the *exact same code* > in two different packages does not seem to be a good idea. > Could this duplication of code be avoided? > Is it possible to link or otherwise use the code included in the mesa > package, rather than packaging another copy of it? Well, it is the exact same code (ie not rewrote) but in Java... and I think JOGL devs prefer to avoid JNI code. > Anyway, from a DFSG-freeness point of view, that license is indeed > problematic: see http://bugs.debian.org/368560 for the details. > Unfortunately, there seems to have been too little progress on this bug > so far. Do you know if anyone contacted the owner of the code ? Or if anything is planned to fix this issue ? Sylvestre
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