Re: New upstream version of locfit
Hi Charles,
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 07:14:30AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 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 !
Thanks for the good news. I'll prepare a package right now.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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