License for f2j (Was: Source code for jlapack)
Hi Keith,
some time ago you helped me with a really good hint how to find the
sources for f2c. The Debian Med team now did some progress in building
a Debian package from f2j thanks to Olivier Sallou. Unfortunately now
Debian ftpmasters did not accepted the package in main Debian for the
following reason:
files under goto_trans are licensed under JAVAB license, which seems
non-free to me in this clause, as it doesn't allow redistribution and
use under for-profit purposes, hence failing DFSG #6.
*** 2. Permission to use and modify this software and its documentation
*** for education, research, and non-profit purposes is hereby granted to
*** Licensee, provided that the copyright notice, the original author's
*** names and unit identification, and this permission notice appear on
*** all such works, and that no charge be made for such copies.
Do you see any chance to drop this restriction from the software? This
would be *really* helpful for us because otherwise we can not move a
long chain of dependencies into Debian main.
Kind regards and thanks for considering a License change
Andreas.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:51:34PM -0500, Keith Seymour wrote:
>
> Hello Andreas, I have some information here:
>
> http://icl.cs.utk.edu/f2j/faq/index.html#320
>
> Feel free to follow up if that doesn't answer your question.
>
> keith
>
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> >Hi Keith,
> >
> >I'm considering to package some phylogeny software (Beast) for Debian.
> >It has some dependenices from external JAR files and one of them ist mtj
> >(matrix-toolkits-java) which in turn depends from netlib-java and this
> >in turn depends somehow from jlapack. To finally enable a download I
> >need to provide the source of all components and reproduce every step to
> >reconstruct the resulting JARs. I'm somehow stranded in this chain of
> >dependencies when I tried to get the source for jlapack from
> >
> > http://www.netlib.org/java/f2j/
> >
> >and noticed that despite the text claims to contain
> >
> > JLAPACK source and class files (tgz archive)
> >
> >it only has the class files bundled into the JAR but no Java sources at
> >all. COuld you give me some hint where or how I can obtain the sources
> >to reconstruct the JARs?
> >
> >Kind regards and thanks for any help
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
>
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