>> From: Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mi...@gmail.com> >> Hi Jeffrey, >> >> I am taking over gwc package in debian and having some >> license concerns: >> >> 1) chbevl.c file has this statement >> >> Cephes Math Library Release 2.0: April, 1987 >> Copyright 1985, 1987 by Stephen L. Moshier >> Direct inquiries to 30 Frost Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 >> >> Interpreting of such text can be as "I own this, please >> contact me in >> any case!". >> >> You probably did not intend such interpretation. >> Can you please add explicit licensing statement to this >> file. >> >> best regards >> >> mira
2011/3/6 jeff welty <wel...@yahoo.com>: > Hi Mira, > > Thanks for catching that. There is a README attached to the original tar > archive that clearly indicates the source code may be used freely, this was > 1990, long before the open source copyrights started to be written and > understood. Here is the README: > --- > Some software in this archive may be from the book _Methods and > Programs for Mathematical Functions_ (Prentice-Hall, 1989) or > from the Cephes Mathematical Library, a commercial product. In > either event, it is copyrighted by the author. What you see here > may be used freely but it comes with no support or guarantee. > > The two known misprints in the book are repaired here in the > source listings for the gamma function and the incomplete beta > integral. > > > Stephen L. Moshier > mosh...@world.std.com > --- > > If I place the text of this readme in the source files chbelv.c, i0.c and > i1.c, will that meet your needs? > > > Best regards, > Jef Hi, above is response from upstream, I was asking to solve issue in chbevl.c file. Would be suggested solution good enough for us? Can this note in README file solve issue in meschach library? regards mira _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
