New upstream version of locfit
Hello everybody,
for a long time, the CRAN package locfit could not go in Debian because
of uncertainties of its license. Although marked GPL >=2 in its
DESCRIPTION file, some C source files were pointing to a README file for
their license, the file was not available in the package, and searches
in the Internet Archive were revealing that the licese was forbidding
benchmarks, which is not Free.
The new upstream version 1.5-9-4 contains a README file with the
following statement from the current Maintainer:
Earlier versions of locfit had a license which restricted usage.
The code was re-licensed by Prof. Loader in a version sent to
Andy Liaw in 2005 from which this CRAN distribution is derived.
I believe this solves the problem and opens Debian's doors to locfit
and its reverse-dependencies !
Have a nice day,
Charles
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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan
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