Hi Roger,
at first I would like to inform you that I plan to package R CRAN Maptools
for the Debian GNU Linux distribution. It is a precondition for CRAN
Surveillance which should be part of the epidemiology task of Debian Med [1].
I actually prepared a package which worked so far but there is a licensing
issue which is not accepted by ftpmaster. Please read below about the
problematic files.
I noticed that the download page is not available any more so you should
probably at least fix the license statement in your downloadable tarball.
Do you see any chance for relicensing the problematic files? Would
Maptools miss any essential features if the problematic data files would
be removed from the tarball?
Kind regards and thanks for providing R Maptools
Andreas.
[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/epi.html
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Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:46:28 +0000
From: Mark Hymers <ftpmas...@debian.org>
To: Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org>,
Cc: Debian Installer <instal...@ftp-master.debian.org>
Subject: r-cran-maptools_0.7.16-1_i386.changes REJECTED
Dear Maintainer,
Rejected:
"""Files: inst/shapes/baltim.*, inst/shapes/columbus.*, and inst/shapes/sids.*
are derived by permission from SAL data files
prepared by Luc Anselin; they were downloaded from:
http://sal.agecon.uiuc.edu/stuff/data.html
under the following conditions: "The data are provided as is, without
any warranties. Please make sure to give proper credit when using
them in any publications. Some of the data sets are purely illustrative
and should not be used for substantive research."
"""
This does not give us modification or distribution rights. Please remove
these datasets or get them relicensed.
Thanks,
Mark
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