Hi Olivier, On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:13:47AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote: > > Le 8/1/12 9:48 AM, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > 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.
It would be cool if somebody could do this (I'm not at facebook nor do I intend to go there for this purpose ... I once joined linkedin just to contact an upstream author). > 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. Perhaps I'm wrong but I found the following: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/libcolt-java/trunk/debian/copyright?view=markup I'd be happy if we could solve this issue by whatever means. Thank you for checking this in any case Andreas. > [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? 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