Hi, Am Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:42:44 +0800 schrieb Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com> > > * Package name : paw > Version : 2.14.04 > Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics > * URL : http://paw.web.cern.ch/paw/ > * License : GPL-2+ > Programming Lang: Fortran, C > Description : Physics Analysis Workstation > > PAW is an interactive program providing interactive graphical > presentation and statistical and mathematical analysis tools. It is > designed to work on objects familiar to physicists such as histograms, > event files (Ntuples), vectors, etc. It seems that PAW is upstream dead (last activity on the website was in 2006, the last release of PAW was in 2002, the cernlib site states in red: 'The development and support for CERNLIB has been discontinued. Libraries will be continued to be provided "as is"'), additionally I don't see it being GPL-2+ licensed, at least I couldn't find any file stating this (I searched in the 2006 tarball obtained from http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/version.html, maybe there is another version?). Additionally, in the tarball are quite a lot of files that are definitively not GPL-2+, although they arguably don't belong to PAW. An example would be the file 2006/src/packlib/fatmen/scripts/unix/ctab_root.dat which contains: # (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 1989,1991 # All Rights Reserved # Licensed Materials - Property of IBM # # US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or # disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. with no further licenses. This doesn't sound like GPL-2+ Additionally, it seems to be utterly undocumented - I wanted to test if PAWs is useful at all nowadays but couldn't figure out how to build it. Maybe I missed the right tarball or am just to thick, but to me it looks rather unclear if this software is worth the hassle. Cheers, Mika -- Own your own computer. Don't use Windows 7. <http://windows7sins.org>
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