The attached message sent on behalf of Rafael.
Rafael, in answer to your question, your opinion of the CSIRO license at the
time is given on
2003-02-28 in the long "Next Release" thread at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20030227204956.GK18740%40laboiss0&forum_name=plplot-devel
Look for Debian-legal on that page.
Thanks for writing that e-mail to Pavel (which I will forward separately on
your behalf to the list). If push comes to shove and he does not respond or
responds negatively it should be easy for us to change our build system to
give you and Andrew a special build option to drop csironn, csirocsa, and
example 21 in a clean manner for your Debian packages. However, let us hope
it does not come to that.
Alan
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* Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-11 17:56]:
> I have reviewed the relevant e-mail from my plplot_devel archives. You are
> correct, Joao had the original contact, and Pavel participated on our list
> for a bit answering licensing questions about the linear algebra code he had
> originally lifted from Numerical Recipes but which he subsequently got
> direct from public domain Linpack because of the NR licensing issues. He
> also answered question at the time about the CSIRO license. You had some
> concerns but eventually you appeared satisfied by that license, and
> therefore we all went along with it mostly because none of us were as
> clued-up about licensing issues as you.
Could you please give me the URL of this archived thread ?
> Now that it turns out the CSIRO license is an unsatisfactory license from
> the Debian point of view, it would be good to resolve this situation by
> getting Pavel's source code relicensed.
>
> To answer your question above, none of us have contact anymore with Pavel.
> Therefore, Rafael, please go ahead and contact Pavel about the possibility
> of relicensing since you are (still) the one here with the most licensing
> expertise.
I googled for csiro+"pavel sakov" and found many hits pointing to
http://www.marine.csiro.au/~sak007, which is broken. I still have to find
his current email address.
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Rafael
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