Re: Cufflinks and locfit's problems
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the update. Thanks for letting us know, and thanks for working to include Cufflinks with Debian!
Who did you try to contact? LOCFIT (I believe) had two authors - Catherine Loader and Jiayang Sun. It also comes in two flavors - a standalone C package, and an R package. The C one may no longer even be maintained, and I had to heavily modify it to get it to work with our package.
Unfortunately it's very hard to replace - there simply aren't that many lightweight nonlinear regression libraries out there that will do the kind of fitting that we need here. I can fix the hardening issues, and I'm happy to track down the authors of LOCFIT and see if I can get more information on the licensing status of LOCFIT.
Thanks again,
Cole
On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> I'm writing to you on behalf of Debian Med, an internal team of the
> Debian GNU/Linux distribution which tries to make Debian prepared
> best for use in medicine and biology. We created a Debian package [0]
> of cufflinks but realized that we can not put it to the official repository
> because of non-free license of its component , locfit .
>
> The upstream author seems to be not reachable , so I had no chance to
> discuss the problem with him/her.
> There is also another problem with locfit , it fails to built when applying
> some hardening options [1].
>
> Therefore I want to ask you if you would consider locfit's replacing ?
>
> Thank you for the great software and best regards ,
> Alex
>
> [0] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/cufflinks.git
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2011/12/msg00086.html
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