Yes, if we need to be in a position for Debian to be able to distribute
Starlink s/w. We discussed this before I think. I hope we are not too far
from this.
...David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Jenness [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 10 December 2003 01:38
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: NDF and Debian
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Tim Jenness
> JAC software
> http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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