Le 8/1/12 9:48 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit : > Hi again, > > we were now beaten the second time with the libcolt-java license. Any > volunteer to at least try to do some research to find a working e-mail > address of the author? Perhaps some social networking contacts (I do > not have) might help. > > This would enable me spending more time on technical issues. I think one of the author is reachable (http://www.facebook.com/wolfgang.hoschek). We should be able to contact him via this channel. However, aida code is a multi developper code, I don't know how this can be managed when "team" is over (last code update is 2010 [0])
However, on FREEHEP web site, it is specified that license is LGPL, no military exception. [0] http://java.freehep.org/index.html > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the following is a task where a volunteer can prove his support of the >> Debian Med team to enable us concentrating on technical work instead of >> needing to do research for upstream authors on the internet. The task >> is as follows: >> >> The address I used from one of the upstream authors of colt (the only >> address I was able to find in the code) bounced. So please have a look >> onto the copyright file >> >> >> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/libcolt-java/trunk/debian/copyright?revision=9360&view=markup >> >> and into the code which can be downloaded from >> >> http://acs.lbl.gov/software/colt/colt-download/releases/ >> >> or any other resources in the internet. I also found the location >> of FreeHEP >> >> http://aida.freehep.org/ >> >> and the docs >> >> http://aida.freehep.org/doc/v3.2.0/api/hep/ >> >> but did not found the promised link to more license specifications. >> >> So please help us in contacting the authors to enable distribution of >> the Colt library and thus several phylogeny packages in our queue. >> >> Thanks for your help >> >> Andreas. >> >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:29:05PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi Wolfgang, >>> >>> I intended to package colt as a precondition for some phylogeny package >>> inside Debian. Unfortunately the current license is in conflict with the >>> Debian Free Software Guidelines >>> >>> http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines >>> >>> specifically item 5. and 6. saying: >>> >>> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups >>> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of >>> persons. >>> >>> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor >>> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program >>> in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the >>> program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic >>> reseach. >>> >>> So while I personally perfectly share your pacifistic intentions and it >>> is a hard job I need to take over hereby but I wonder whether you might >>> consider a point of view that licensing of Free Software and pacifistic >>> view of the world are orthogonal things. If not we never can release >>> colt nor its dependencies in main Debian which would be a shame. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Andreas. >>> >>> ----- Forwarded message from Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> ----- >>> >>> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:31:46 +0000 >>> From: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> >>> To: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>, >>> Debian Med Packaging Team <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> >>> Subject: colt_1.2.0~dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED >>> X-Spam_score: -2.3 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm rejecting your package as hep.aida.* is non-free according to the >>> information in xdocs/license.xml: >>> >>> Permission to use and/or redistribute this work is granted under the >>> terms of >>> the LGPL License, with the exception that any usage related to military >>> applications is expressly forbidden. The software and documentation made >>> available under the terms of this license are provided with no warranty. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ansgar >>> >>> >>> >>> === >>> >>> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why >>> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our >>> concerns. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Debian-med-packaging mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging >>> >>> >>> ----- End forwarded message ----- >>> >>> -- >>> http://fam-tille.de >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>> [email protected] >>> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >>> >>> >> -- >> http://fam-tille.de >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >> >> -- Olivier Sallou IRISA / University of Rennes 1 Campus de Beaulieu, 35000 RENNES - FRANCE Tel: 02.99.84.71.95 gpg key id: 4096R/326D8438 (keyring.debian.org) Key fingerprint = 5FB4 6F83 D3B9 5204 6335 D26D 78DC 68DB 326D 8438 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
