Just had an interesting email exchange with the person responsible for
integrating PDL into Debian. He wanted to include NDF because of the
PDL::IO::NDF module in PDL but was unable to because of the licence
restriction (and, of course, he never got around to trying to build it!).
It sounds like if we actual made a debian package of NDF and dependencies
and uploaded them to debian, then he would be happy to add the NDF
dependency to PDL and therefore bring starlink into a lot of debian
environments automatically. That sounds interesting idea
Of course, he was close to offering to do that himself but saying that
Starlink use GPL is not the same as actually shipping tar files with a GPL
licence.
Can we start migrating some of the classic packages that Starlink own to
GPL on the web site to go along with the web site announcement? SLA is now
done but is not yet retrievable from the software store.
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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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