For the record. The packing for laszip has been available for some time now.
Unfortunately the LASzip source uses a modified copy of the FastAC (Readme [1], Source [2]) algorithm whose license doesn't allow modification making it incompatible with the LGPL-2.1 license used by LASzip. See the thread started by the Debian FTP master feedback [3]. I've contacted the FastAC authors asking them to consider relicensing the code, Amir Said replied that he would be glad to see it used in Free Software projects and asked what they needed to do. I've recommended using the BSD-2-Clause [4] license which is close to the currently license of FastAC and most widely compatible with other Free Software licenses. It has been very quiet ever since. Recently I restarted the discussion with the FastAC authors and this time also included the libLAS & LASzip authors, but no progress has been made still. [1] http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/research/SPIHT/EW_Code/FastAC_Readme.pdf [2] http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/research/SPIHT/EW_Code/FastAC.zip [3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grass-devel/2014-August/021701.html [4] http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b8018f.6030...@xs4all.nl