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

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:56:08AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> The actual source code is exclusively and explicitly mentioning a README
> file.  I'd tempeted to include just this README file which is not in
> conflict with GPL IMHO.
> 
> I now remember that we previously tried to contact Catherine and Lucent
> but failed.
> 
> What do you think?

The README file forbids benchmarking, which is unfortunatly incompatible with
the GPL...  The CRAN maintainer Andy Liaw <andy_liaw at merck.com> is our last
hope.

Also, if r-cran-locfit goes in non-free, it is not that bad, because if I
understand well you need it for regression tests, and these can be run outside
of the build session, using autopkgtest.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles