[andreas@an3as.eu: Please help contacting responsible person for f2j (Was: Please consider a free software license)]
Hi,
I'm again trying to catch up this issue to finally get a free f2j.
Is there anybody out there who could contact the author (may be via
SourceForge - I do not have a login) to discuss the non-free license
of f2j?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:24:25 +0200
From: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
To: vbrendel@indiana.edu
Cc: Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Please help contacting responsible person for f2j (Was: Please consider a free software license)
Hello,
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med project which tries to
assemble free software in life sciences into Debian to support this
field of endevour as best as possible. (Here you can find a list of the
packaged software[0].) Currently we are in trouble to bring beast (see
on our list) into main Debian since there is some dependency chain which
ends in f2c which has a non-free license. F2c was developed at Indiana
University and the e-mail address of the contact person Dennis Gannon
<gannon@cs.indiana.edu> bounces (and he is also not listed on your web
site any more).
I wonder whether you might be able to provide us with some valid contact
point where we could ask for a free license. Sorry if I just bother you
with this topic but I had no better clue than trying to find somebody
who might potentially be interested in the work of the Debian Med team.
Thanks for considering and kind regards
Andreas.
[0] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
----- Forwarded message from Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> -----
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:11:48 +0200
From: Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
To: Dennis Gannon <gannon@cs.indiana.edu>, Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
Cc: Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Keith Seymour <seymour@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Please condifer a free software license
Hi,
some time ago there was a discussion[1] about the f2c lincense,
specifically about the part goto_trans/* which says:
... it is freely available without
fee for education, research, and non-profit purposes.
The restriction to certain purposes is considered non-free according to
the Open Source definition[2] since item 6. does not allow
discrimination against fields of endeavor. We have packaged f2c in
Debian format but because of this license it can not become part of
Debian but is rather provided in non-free. The problem is that f2c is
at the beginning of some chain of dependencies which makes it impossible
to put all these into main Debian.
Since so far nobody followed Keith's hint[1] to replace the
functionality of goto_trans/* by Apache Commons BCEL or something like
this I wonder whether you as the author might consider droping the
restriction and using a really free license.
Thanks for considering
Andreas.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/03/msg00235.html
[2] http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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