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__________________________ 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); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); 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 __________________________
--- Begin Message ---Dear Pavel Sakov, Your Natural Neighbours interpolation (nn) and Bivariate Cubic Spline approximation (csa) libraries have been integrated into PLplot [1] and have been distributed by Debian GNU/Linux [2] since 2003. The free-software compatibility of these libraries has been recently questioned [3] and, after a discussion in the debian-legal mailing list [4], it seems that the licensing terms of nn and csa are indeed not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines [5]. We are left with two options: either we drop the libraries from Debian, which will extremely penalize our users of PLplot, or the libraries are relicenses under terms that are compatible with the LGPL [7]. Of course, we much prefer the second option. Do you think you could manage to do it? [1] http://plplot.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/plplot/trunk/lib/ [2] http://packages.debian.org/libcsiro0 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500687 [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/10/msg00002.html [5] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines Best regards, -- Rafael Laboissière
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