Re: ITP: pgplot-perl -- PGPLOT Perl module
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Gürkan Sengün dijo [Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 11:36:41AM +0200]:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : pgplot-perl
Please use libpgplot-perl, following the current policy for Perl
packages.
Consider working this together with the pkg-perl group (then again, we
might have to discuss this in the group - Group, are you interested in
maintaining non-free packages? ;-) )
> Version : 2.20
> Upstream Authors : Karl Glazebrook <karl_pgplot@mac.com>
> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/search%3fmodule=PGPLOT
> * License : see below (yes non-free)
> Description : PGPLOT Perl module
> This module allows the use of the the PGPLOT graphics library from the
> popular Perl scripting language. PGPLOT makes it very easy to process
> and plot data using the powerful file and text manipulation facilites
> built in to Perl. Perl provides a superset of the features of the
> useful UNIX utilities awk and sed and is the `Swiss-Army Chainsaw' of
> UNIX programming.
>
> Find a working, unpolished version at
> http://gnu.ethz.ch/debian/pgplot-perl/
>
> LICENSE INFORMATION
> -------------------
>
> The PGPLOT module for Perl is distributed under the same licensing terms
> as Perl itself. Please see the file "README" in the Perl distribution
> for more details.
>
> The PGPLOT library is copyrighted by the California Institute of
> Technology but is available free for education, academic research and
> non-commercial purposes. Please see the file copyright.notice in the
> PGPLOT distribtuion for more details.
>
> Karl Glazebrook 7/Dec/1996
(Reproduced only so the pkg-perl group can refer to it without jumping
through hoops)
Note that the eleven-year-old timestamp seems to concern the
_license_, not the module itself :)
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