Re: Ping: Help for non-technical task needed (Was: License of colt [colt_1.2.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)
Hi Olivier,
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:13:47AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>
> Le 8/1/12 9:48 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > 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.
It would be cool if somebody could do this (I'm not at facebook nor do I
intend to go there for this purpose ... I once joined linkedin just to
contact an upstream author).
> 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.
Perhaps I'm wrong but I found the following:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/libcolt-java/trunk/debian/copyright?view=markup
I'd be happy if we could solve this issue by whatever means.
Thank you for checking this in any case
Andreas.
> [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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ===
> >>>
> >>> 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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