On 4/12/10 21:52, Daniel Macks wrote: > The license situation is confusing here. The website requires > registering/etc in order to get the files, but the licensing describes > itself as Apache-like and explicitly does allow redistribution in terms > compatible with the fink package-manager model. That means someone > could agree to the license and then redistribute it for us. They do not > seem to have the old version that fink has (as you note, no maintainer, > so nobody's stepped up to keep this package viable--volunteers > welcome!), so the package description would need to be updated.
It certainly needs to be updated, but the info file is quite long, in particular the InstallScript, so this might not be very simple. It would require someone who really knows how this thing should work. OTOH, looking at ncl.info, one finds two interesting parts: > DescPort: << > This package downloads and installs a precompiled binary. > No source code is as yet available. > << The part about the source code is perhaps no longer true? But apparently even with an existing precompiled binary, the installation seems to have been complicated enough to merit a Fink package. And from the PostInstScript: > echo "--------------------------------------------------------" > echo "The NCL Developers request that you go to " > echo "http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl/download.html"; > echo "fill in the necessary fields, then click submit to" > echo "agree to the NCL License terms. Note: on the page that" > echo "comes up after you click on "submit", you don't need to" > echo "grab the MacOSX binary that is listed there." > echo "The above step is solely for agreeing to the license." > echo "--------------------------------------------------------" This looks like the situation concerning the required inscription was the same already some years ago when this package was made. The ncl.patch file, BTW, contains the license. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
