Re: Bug#888489: ITP: ngspice-dfsg -- Spice circuit simulator - DFSG compatible parts
Hi Carsten,
maintaining this package in pkg-electronics-team is fine. I know less
about this team and its connection to Debian Science but please
coordinate with current ngspice maintainer who maintains the related
packages in Debian Science Git (at salsa.d.o).
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:24:50AM +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de>
>
> * Package name : ngspice-dfsg
> Version : 27
> Upstream Author : various (mainly Holger Vogt, Paolo Nenzi, Robert
> Larice)
> * URL : http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/
> * License : BSD-3-clause, LGPL-2(+), GPL-2(+)
> Programming Lang: C, TclTk, plain text
> Description : Spice circuit simulator - DFSG compatible parts
>
> Packages for NGspice are available due license incompatibilities in old
> versions to the DFSG only in non-free.
> With version 27 (released in September 2017) most of the used non DFSG
> compatible licensed files/folders have been moved over to BSD 3-clause
> (upstream uses here the name 'New BSD') and by this the build-able files
> and binary stuff can now be considered as free enough by the DFSG.
> There are still parts that uses licenses that aren't compatible with the
> DFSG. All those parts can be excluded and the binaries are built without
> support of that software parts. NGspice upstream has updated their
> online available FAQ [2] about the used licenses, please look at point 1.5.
>
> I prepared a wiki site to collect and track the status for files and
> folders in question [3].
>
> My working tree can be found on GitHub [4] for now. I'd really happy if
> someone can have a look at this especially for the license issues which
> the new version shouldn't have any longer. I had some nice communication
> with upstream which gave me some guidance for the needed removal of
> still not free enough licensed files and folders, which would bring in
> some packages could still only served by non-free. I will probably also
> maintain the src:ngspice package later as there are otherwise some
> overlapping files between both source packages. I'm in contact to the
> current Uploader Gudjon I. Gudjonsson about this.
>
> I will maintain this package in the pkg-electronics-team, co-maintainers are
> welcome! It's a build dependency for KiCad 5 which come with schematic
> simulation based on the libngspice library which isn't available in the
> non-free packages.
>
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ngspice
> [2] http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/faq.html
> [3] https://wiki.debian.org/KiCad/ngspice
> [4] https://github.com/tijuca/ngspice-dfsg
>
>
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