Re: License for f2j (Was: Source code for jlapack)
Hi Keith,
thanks for your quick answer. Could you provide any contact address at
the Indiana University? I personally have no idea how to rewrite the
questionable part because I'm no Java programmer - but perhaps somebody
in our team might step in.
Kind regards and thanks for your help
Andreas.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:29:05PM -0400, Keith Seymour wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas, unfortunately that license originates from a different
> organization (Indiana University), so I don't think I can change the
> terms.
>
> There are a few options:
>
> 1. Try to contact IU about the license terms.
>
> 2. Omit the code in the goto_trans subdirectory, which contains a
> post-processing tool for handling GOTO statements. f2j could still
> generate working class files, but the generated Java source code
> will not be useful without post-processing.
>
> 3. Re-implement the post-processing tool using Apache Commons BCEL
> or similar tool. This should be pretty simple, but I haven't had
> time to look at it.
>
> keith
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> >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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