Re: Ping: Help for non-technical task needed (Was: License of colt [colt_1.2.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)
Le 8/1/12 9:48 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 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.
I think one of the author is reachable
(http://www.facebook.com/wolfgang.hoschek). We should be able to contact
him via this channel.
However, aida code is a multi developper code, I don't know how this can
be managed when "team" is over (last code update is 2010 [0])
However, on FREEHEP web site, it is specified that license is LGPL, no
military exception.
[0] http://java.freehep.org/index.html
>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ===
>>>
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>>> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
>>> concerns.
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