On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 04:45:53 +0000 Eric Kuzmenko wrote: [...] > It was therefore not free software and did not > comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines, hence why it is found in > Debian's non-free archive. First of all, thanks for trying to liberate an important software package for circuit simulation! It would be really awesome, if ngspice could become Free Software. However, please note that CIDER is apparently not the only non-free part of the "ngspice" Debian package [1]. According to the debian/copyright file [2] of version 26-1.1, there are other parts that do not comply with the DFSG. Namely, the parts under * the NOOVELA license (non-commercial use only, lack of permission to copy, distribute and modify) * no license ("No license found, only copyright") * the SPICEDOC license (educational, research and non-profit purposes only) Then there's the CIDER_LICENSE issue which you are trying to address. My own personal opinion [3] is that all these issues have to be solved, before the "ngspice" Debian package can be moved to the Debian main archive. I hope this may be done... Bye. [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ngspice [2] http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/n/ngspice/ngspice_26-1.1_copyright [3] I am not a member of the Debian Project, I am just an external contributor: I don't officially speak on behalf of the Debian Project, I just express my own personal opinion -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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