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Bug#784771: marked as done (ITP: baudline -- time-frequency browser designed for spectral visualisation)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #784771,
regarding ITP: baudline -- time-frequency browser designed for spectral visualisation
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : baudline
  Version         : 1.08
    Upstream Author : Baudline <contact@baudline.com>
	* URL             : http://www.baudline.com/
	* License         : GPL
	  Description     : time-frequency browser designed for spectral visualisation

	  Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific
	  visualization of the spectral domain.  Signal analysis is performed by
	  Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful
	  spectrograms with vibrant detail.  Conduct test and measurement
	  experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio
	  files with a multitude of effects and filters.  The baudline signal
	  analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed
	  displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying
	  elusive signal characteristics.

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Control: tags -1 wontfix

Hi,

Following investigation and failed attempts to contact the Baduline
developers, I am concluding that Baudline is not available as free software
despite claims that it is available as GNU GPL on their website.

It appears that the source code has never been released as GNU GPL, and it
is my belief that when they approached Red Hat and Sourceforge as mentioned
in their "source code trivia" blog post [1] they may have tried to sell the
source code with a GNU GPL license to these companies.

Baudline is available in FreeBSD's ports [2] and in OpenSUSE [3] although these
packages both use the binary distributions provided on the Baudline website.

This is a shame as they've even indicated on their blog [4] that they would
have liked to have had a Linux Live CD including Baudline's "helper apps".
They've complained about Linux distributions not properly supporting
Baudline, but haven't made any attempt to make it easy for Linux
distributions to do so.

Pentoo did attempt to contact Baudline previously to ask about getting a
copy of the alleged GNU GPL source code, but the Baudline developers did not
provide it in this case [5] (I have also spoken with the Pentoo developer
privately and he has confirmed it is unlikely we will ever see it).

For these reasons, I am tagging this bug as "wontfix" and closing. If you do
have a copy of the source code, please feel free to reopen the bug and
retitle as an RFP. If you contact me I will consider doing the packaging
work again should the source become available.

Thanks,
Iain.

[1]: http://sigblips.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/source-code-trivia.html
[2]: http://www.freshports.org/audio/baudline/
[3]: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:Reki/baudline
[4]: http://baudline.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/fedora-8-vs-opensuse-103-vs-ubuntu-710.html
[5]: https://twitter.com/baudline/status/533723658510823424

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