Ping: Help for non-technical task needed (Was: License of colt [colt_1.2.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi again,

we were now beaten the second time with the libcolt-java license.  Any
volunteer to at least try to do some research to find a working e-mail
address of the author?  Perhaps some social networking contacts (I do
not have) might help.

This would enable me spending more time on technical issues.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the following is a task where a volunteer can prove his support of the
> Debian Med team to enable us concentrating on technical work instead of
> needing to do research for upstream authors on the internet.  The task
> is as follows:
> 
> The address I used from one of the upstream authors of colt (the only
> address I was able to find in the code) bounced.  So please have a look
> onto the copyright file
> 
>    http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/libcolt-java/trunk/debian/copyright?revision=9360&view=markup
> 
> and into the code which can be downloaded from
> 
>    http://acs.lbl.gov/software/colt/colt-download/releases/
> 
> or any other resources in the internet.  I also found the location
> of FreeHEP
> 
>    http://aida.freehep.org/
> 
> and the docs
> 
>    http://aida.freehep.org/doc/v3.2.0/api/hep/
> 
> but did not found the promised link to more license specifications.
> 
> So please help us in contacting the authors to enable distribution of
> the Colt library and thus several phylogeny packages in our queue.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:29:05PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Wolfgang,
> > 
> > I intended to package colt as a precondition for some phylogeny package
> > inside Debian.  Unfortunately the current license is in conflict with the
> > Debian Free Software Guidelines
> > 
> >    http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> > 
> > specifically item 5. and 6. saying:
> > 
> >   5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
> >      The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
> > 
> >   6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
> >      The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program
> >      in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the
> >      program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic
> >      reseach.
> > 
> > So while I personally perfectly share your pacifistic intentions and it
> > is a hard job I need to take over hereby but I wonder whether you might
> > consider a point of view that licensing of Free Software and pacifistic
> > view of the world are orthogonal things.  If not we never can release
> > colt nor its dependencies in main Debian which would be a shame.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >         Andreas.
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Ansgar Burchardt <ftpmaster@debian.org> -----
> > 
> > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:31:46 +0000
> > From: Ansgar Burchardt <ftpmaster@debian.org>
> > To: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>,
> > 	Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Cc: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>
> > Subject: colt_1.2.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
> > X-Spam_score: -2.3
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm rejecting your package as hep.aida.* is non-free according to the
> > information in xdocs/license.xml:
> > 
> >   Permission to use and/or redistribute this work is granted under the terms of
> >   the LGPL License, with the exception that any usage related to military
> >   applications is expressly forbidden. The software and documentation made
> >   available under the terms of this license are provided with no warranty.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ansgar
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ===
> > 
> > Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
> > your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> > concerns.
> > 
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