Dear list, in the course of bringing saods9 (back) into Debian, I created a package [1] for the "SOFA" library of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) [2]
However, the license of the package is questionable wrt DFSG and the IAU only cooperated by changing the license up to a certain point. Specifically, one item is still in the license which is not really nice to us ([3], §3c): | The name(s) of all routine(s) in your derived work shall not | include the prefix "iau" or "sofa" or trivial modifications | thereof such as changes of case. During the development of astropy (which in the first releases also depended on SOFA), the discussion was brought up again, with the solution of having a "free as in DFSG" (namely BSD-3) replacement called "erfa" [4]. Erfa is basically a cut-and-paste version of SOFA, its legality (incl. the licensing) is however confirmed by the original author (IAU) [5]. The "erfa" package is now also in Debian [6], and I converted all dependent packages (starlink-ast, starlink-pal, python-astropy) to use erfa instead of SOFA. Therefore, I would like now to move SOFA to non-free in jessie. Are there any objections for this? Best regards Ole [1] http://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/iausofa-c [2] http://www.iausofa.org/index.html [3] http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/i/iausofa-c/iausofa-c_2012.03.01-1_copyright [4] https://github.com/liberfa/erfa [5] http://www.iausofa.org/thirdparty.html [6] http://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/erfa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
