Hi Dirk,
I seem to recall that someone once mentioned packaging of Morten's
Torque
packages from Ubuntu. I also seem to recall Steffen saying that he
was in
contact with Morten. Based on quick search of my mail folder I
can't find
traces of either. Could someone kindly refresh my memory?
We are now co-maintaining the package in Debian's pkg-escience team
[0]. The version that is currently in Ubuntu is in one of the
branches. Steffen and I had independently packaged Torque, but our
efforts are now essentially merged in trunk.
It is my intention to upload the merged version to Ubuntu in the
current development cycle (Lucid). There is a single bug in LP that
can hopefully be closed along with that.
[ Google sees traces of informal packaging of Torque on non-Debian
repos and
prior debian-legal discussion -- did that ever progress beyond the
earlier
"Nope" ? ]
Oh, that. Yes it is a complicated situation, which doesn't get any
better by the fact that the Torque maintainers don't give a d*mn about
license issues. AFAIK several people have emailed them about it and
they never answer. The current Torque effort is the result of several
forked projects the history of which are pretty much lost in the
annals... in my memory at least :-)
In Ubuntu, the torque package resides in "Multiverse" which
corresponds to the "non-free" section of Debian. Torque has it's own
peculiar license which tends to make the archive-admins nervous. It is
my conviction however, that Torque in practice is FOSS perhaps even
FLOSS.
Cheers,
Morten
[0] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-escience/torque/
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