i just got MIT's permission to package Starlogo[1] for Debian. It's a Java application to simulate cellular automata and large populations on distributed machines. The problem that I am currently facing is twofold: First, I am not entirely sure about the licence, so I've placed it at[2] and would welcome comments. Essentially, it is the following paragraph which puts me off: For use by members of the StarLogo Users Group. For information about joining the StarLogo Users Group, see http://education.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/starlogo-users. But having downloaded the software, I never had to join that group. The second major challenge I see in the source code issue. MIT doesn't release the source code, so I guess it is not viable for Debian. Am I right, and should I push them to release to us, or are there even other issues at stake here? 1. http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/ 2. ftp://ftp.madduck.net/scratch/starlogo-license.txt.gz -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Keyserver problems? http://keyserver.kjsl.com/~jharris/keyserver.html Get my key here: http://madduck.net/me/gpg/publickey
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