On Wed 07 Jul 2021 08:37:08 AM EDT, Doug Torrance <dtorra...@piedmont.edu> wrote:
On Wed 07 Jul 2021 01:16:03 AM EDT, Nilesh Patra <nil...@debian.org> wrote:./src/Ada/Math_Lib/QD/READ_ME states this:The main reference for the QD-2.3.9 library is Y. Hida, X.S. Li, and D.H. Bailey: "Algorithms for quad-double precision floating point arithmetic." In 15th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (Arith-15 2001), 11-17 June 2001, Vail, CO, USA, pages 155-162. IEEE Computer Society, 2001. Shortened version of Technical Report LBNL-46996, software at http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/qd-2.3.9.tar.gz. Note that the "BSD-LBNL-License" is GPL compatible, although "If you wish to use the software for commercial purposes please contact the Technology Transfer Department at t...@lbl.gov or call 510-286-6457." I admit, I'm not very sure if I understand the terms there correctly, but should it be mentioned in d/copyright? I also see similar stuff in a lot of READ_ME files, ./src/Ada/Root_Counts/MixedVol/READ_ME for instance. Do they need to be mentioned in d/copyright? If not, IMO adding a "Comment:" and the reasoning for not adding these in copyright would be good.Good catch! I've sent upstream a note asking for clarification on the license of the files in this directory.
Upstream confirmed that this particular feature would cause limitations for commercial use due to the license. It's just one feature, though, and I think that PHCpack would still be a valuable addition to Debian without it. (For example, the PHCpack package in Macaulay2 doesn't use it.) I'll spend some time working on stripping this feature out to create a DFSG-compliant version of PHCpack and ping the list when it's ready for another look. Thanks again! Doug
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