On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Lifeng Sun <lifong...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Mika Pflüger <deb...@mikapflueger.de> wrote: >> It seems that PAW is upstream dead (last activity on the website was in >> 2006, the last release of PAW was in 2002, the cernlib site states in >> red: 'The development and support for CERNLIB has been discontinued. >> Libraries will be continued to be provided "as is"'), additionally I >> don't see it being GPL-2+ licensed, at least I couldn't find any file >> stating this (I searched in the 2006 tarball obtained from >> http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/version.html, maybe there is another >> version?). Additionally, in the tarball are quite a lot of files that >> are definitively not GPL-2+, although they arguably don't belong to PAW. >> An example would be the file >> 2006/src/packlib/fatmen/scripts/unix/ctab_root.dat >> which contains: >> # (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 1989,1991 >> # All Rights Reserved >> # Licensed Materials - Property of IBM >> # >> # US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or >> # disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. >> with no further licenses. This doesn't sound like GPL-2+ >> >> Additionally, it seems to be utterly undocumented - I wanted to test if >> PAWs is useful at all nowadays but couldn't figure out how to build it. >> >> Maybe I missed the right tarball or am just to thick, but to me it >> looks rather unclear if this software is worth the hassle. > > These ITPs would be tagged ITA rather than ITP if the CERNLIB-related > packages were not removed from unstable about three weeks ago[1]. The > former maintainer, Kevin B. McCarty, has made them DFSG conformed and > I will follow his work. We are also planning to fork a free version > of CERNLIB. Thank you. > > Mathieu, yes, I will set the Debian Science Team as co-maintainer. > > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2011/03/msg00009.html >
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