Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : rapidminer Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Rapid-I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.rapidminer.com/ * License : GPL (version 2 or later) Programming Lang: Java Description : Integrated data mining environment
Rapidminer is a data mining environment that covers a wide range of real-world data mining tasks. More than 400 data mining operations can be used and almost arbitrarily combined. The program GUI creates XML files describing a data mining task, which is then used as input to the data mining engine and plugins. . Rapidminer can also be used as a Java data mining library. . Some examples of what Rapidminer can be used for: * Knowledge discovery in databases * Rapid prototyping * Plotting and visualising high-dimensional data * Machine learnig through the WEKA library * Text, data stream and multimedia mining * Distributed data mining (Description ends here.) Some parts of Rapidminer are licensed under LGPL or other free software licenses. However, there are two things that prevent this program from going into main: its icons are not licensed under a free software license, and some (or all, I haven't checked) parts of its GUI are not free software. If someone wants to package this, I'd suggest replacing the icons with a free software set (shouldn't be too hard to find replacements for most of them from KDE or GNOME). Then, package this as a Java library for data mining. Later, perhaps the non-free GUI can be packaged separately or replaced by a free software version. Who knows, maybe the authors would consider releasing the GUI parts under the GPL? -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]