Argh, I of course meant to send this to the list. Brett, my apologies for making you see it twice.
On 8/12/05, Brett Viren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Sorry, lost attribution: > >> > >> In the discussion someone notices that beeing linked to (and beeing > >> distributed inside) cernlib (covered by the GPL) ROOT > >> must be released under the GPL and the sentence you quote is > >> in violation of the licence. If someone is really interested in > >> packaging ROOT, (s)he should probably politely mail the upstream > >> author and make them aware of the problem, they could possibly just > >> release ROOT under the GPL making it perfectly suitable for main (a > >> great coup!) > > > > Well, as you seem to be interested, I suggest that you contact the ROOT > > authors. > > I've asked recently. Of course the main developers and likely all > contributors are very aware of the issue. ROOT has always been an > all-but-that-one-clause Free Software project. At the risk of > spoiling any surprises, a fix to the technicality can be expected. Without any intent of being snarky, I have to say: I'll believe it when I see it. Not having any inside information, I only know that the ROOT developers have been stating they will fix the license for about five years now. That said, I will be most pleased and grateful if/when this license fix comes about. I do much of my analysis with ROOT, and it is a superb tool. My experiment (Borexino, a solar neutrino observatory) has officially adopted it as a basis for its data analysis toolkit. I will be thrilled to see ROOT finally be packaged for Debian; it will produce positive results for both projects. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
