Hi Charles, thanks for your research on this.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 07:33:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:37:48AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > Would you agree with the d/copyright of r-cran-locfit in SVN now? > > Hi Andreas, > > it surely reflects the information given by the the CRAN package maintainer. > However, the lack of the README file mentionned in the file headers is > troubling. > > The C code in the R package is clearly related with "locfit-R" and "C-Locfit" > that can be found a the following URL. > > http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/project/locfit/index.html > > "locfit-R" contains contradicting statemnts: its README file is very > permissive, but its DESCRIPTION files forbids commercial use. The actual source code is exclusively and explicitly mentioning a README file. I'd tempeted to include just this README file which is not in conflict with GPL IMHO. I now remember that we previously tried to contact Catherine and Lucent but failed. What do you think? Kind regards Andreas. > ------------------------ DESCRIPTION file ------------------------------- > Package: locfit > Version: 1.1 > Title: Local Regression, Likelihood and Density Estimation. > Date: 8/11/2000 > Author: Catherine Loader <[email protected]> > Maintainer: Catherine Loader <[email protected]> > Description: Local Regression, Likelihood and density estimation. > Depends: > License: Free for non-commercial use, see the file COPYRIGHT for details > URL: http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/project/locfit/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------ COPYRIGHT file ------------------------------- > The author of the Locfit software is > Catherine Loader, [email protected] > or [email protected] > > Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories. > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any > purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice > is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy > or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting > documentation for such software. > THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED > WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES > MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE > MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > SCB (simultaneous confidence bands) code is joint copyright with > Jiayang Sun ([email protected]) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > "C-Locfit" contains a README file with the the following license: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ABOUT ALGORITHMS: > The Locfit implementation has been designed largely from the point > of view of generality: to provide a set of functions that can be > used for as wide a range of local fitting problems as possible. > It is not intended to be the fastest or most efficient implementation > possible. In addition to generality, the code in many places makes > extensive trade-offs made between speed and numerical accuracy (some > of which can be controlled through optional arguments). Many of Locfit's > options will only be used in a small fraction of cases; for other cases, > they add to the cost of overhead (an obvious example is multi-dimensional > fitting: when used in 1-d, many loops reduce to for(i=0;i<1;i++)). > Additionally, the user interfaces (i.e. the R and S-Plus code) add > significantly to the computational overhead. For these reasons, the > Locfit code, as distributed, should not, and can not, be used to > derive meaningful benchmarks, either for the speed or accuracy of algorithms. > Anyone wishing to use Locfit in any kind of comparative benchmark > study must contact and obtain permission from the Author. > > > COPYRIGHT: > > Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories. > SCB code is > Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Jiayang Sun. > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any > purpose (with the exceptions noted in `About Algorithms' above) > without fee is hereby granted, and provided that this entire notice is > included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or > modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting > documentation for such software. > > THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED > WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES > MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE > MERCHANTABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Altogether, the main problem is that there is no clear indication that the > code > has been relicensed to the GPL-2+ in the CRAN package. If it was, it may be a > good news, that may allow the cufflinks package to move from non-free to main. > > Cheers, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > 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? 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