Re: does MUSIC (cosmology package) qualify as free under DFSG?

2017-09-20 Thread Boud Roukema
hi Ian, all, On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: I know that in some other cases upstreams have been persuaded to change such licence conditions into non-binding imprecations. In this case that would make the resulting software GPL-compatible, which would be very nice. Perhaps upstream

does MUSIC (cosmology package) qualify as free under DFSG?

2017-09-20 Thread Boud Roukema
hi Debian Legal, I would like to use the MUSIC cosmological initial conditions software https://bitbucket.org/ohahn/music and potentially (no promises) ITP it as a Debian package. [Debian presently has a much older package with overlapping functionality to MUSIC: mpgrafic. I would prefer not