Re: Bug#731599: ITP: r-cran-locfit -- GNU R local regression, likelihood and density estimation

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:38:04PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : r-cran-locfit
>   Version         : 1.5-9.1
>   Upstream Author : Catherine Loader
> * URL             : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/locfit
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: R
>   Description     : GNU R local regression, likelihood and density estimation
>  This package provides a set of functions to support local regression,
>  likelihood and density estimation.  It is helpful for running the test
>  suites of several GNU R related packages in Debian.

Hi Andreas,

"locfit" rings a bell.

The cufflinks package also contains files from locfit with the same copyright
holders, and there the license has non-free clauses.

So either there are good news that somebody from the R community managed to get
locfit relicensed (which would mean that we can move cufflinks to main), or
maybe there are bad news that locfit's README file in the R package was wrongly
removed, and the package is actually non-free...

http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/c/cufflinks/cufflinks_2.1.1-4_copyright

Cheers,

-- 
Charles