On 2014-09-19 23:45+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > [...]Incidentally, ExternalProject.cmake does not > contain the full license, but has a comment saying that if the file > is distributed outside cmake then the full license should be pasted > into the file. We don't do this and we probably should, or at least > include the BSD license in our Copyright file.
Sorry about that. That file is one of those "temporary measures" that keeps constantly changing (because that file is constantly under development by the CMake team with various sets of patches having to be applied to their version because not all the bugs I have reported concerning ExternalProject.cmake have been fixed). The end result of this constant churn is I have been sloppy with complying with the exact licensing terms. The current status is there are some signs that ExternalProject.cmake development is finally beginning to slow so I may be able to simply drop that file from PLplot and demand that everybody that uses epa_build uses a minimum CMake version of 3.0.2 (where one of my patches to ExternalProject.cmake got in, but I am not sure of the status of the other one for 3.0.2 until I do some tests of that exact version). Of course, if the CMake-3.0.2 version of ExternalProject.cmake still needs one of my old patches (to support the xz compression format for tarballs), then I will keep that patched file in the cmake/epa_build directory and take the time to comply exactly with the licensing terms. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
