On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:59:58AM -0500, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > [Traylen, SM (Steve) Wednesday 13 February 2002 04:47 am]: > | Just wandering if anyone was doing anything with globus toolkit on > | Debian. Steve > actually considering netsolve might be worthwhile too > I haven't checked the license though > > [netsolve] > http://icl.cs.utk.edu/netsolve/
if there is a real need, I can do that. I know NetSolve internals quite well, since my PhD is about such environment, and since I hacked around it for various resons (like modifying the scheduler). Version 1.4 use autoconf, so it should be easier to build the debian package. The problem is its heavy use of environment variables (which are forbidden by the policy). License: This software probably belongs to the Regents of the University of Tennessee, so you can copy it, but you can't use it to make any money. -> non free. > [globus] > http://www.globus.org/ I'm quite involved in this, too, and I would like to help. But I guess we will run into the same problem than with openoffice: lake of modularity... I've heard about GPT, but AFAIK, gpt2 is underway, and has currently some limitations, like the impossibility to build several binary packages from the same source packages, and some features not in Debian packaging system, like the fact that, depending on autoconf magic, the binary package will not be the same (different content and name). No idea about the license. I would like to add another project: [nws] http://nws.cs.ucsb.edu The Network Weather Service is a performance forecasting system used in the two above projects. It is packaged on my home page: www.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/deb.html Licence: This software probably belongs to the Regents of the University of California, so you can copy it, but you can't use it to make any money. -> non free And yet another one: [Ninf] "http://ninf.apgrid.org/welcome.shtml which quite comparable to NetSolve. The tarball don't seem to contain any license statement... Don't let all these licensing issues scary you. All these project are academic ones, and I guess no intention to make the license non free, or to look the projects up there. I guess nobody contacted the authors to ask to change it. For example, atlas [atlas.sourceforge.org] was developped in the same team than netsolve, but got a free license when users really asked for it... Bye, Mt. -- Si les grands esprits se rencontrent, les petits esprits, eux, se cognent.
