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This package was debianized by Gopal Narayanan gopal@debian.org on
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:16:38 -0500.
It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.astro.umd.edu/progs/morgan
Upstream Author(s): Jim Morgan morgan@astro.umd.edu
Copyright:
WIP is copyright by the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association (BIMA)
Project. All portions of WIP, including source code, may be used
subject only to the following restrictions:
1.Unmodified WIP may be distributed freely on-site and may allow unrestricted
access worldwide;
2.Modified WIP must clearly note its non-standard nature and that portion der
ived from WIP
can not be claimed as proprietary;
3.Distribution of WIP requires formal notification to the WIP contact listed
below;
4.Receipt of WIP binds all recipients to the above restrictions and to all re
strictions on
portions of WIP not developed by BIMA (especially PGPLOT).
Jim Morgan <morgan@astro.umd.edu>
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Here is Jim Morgan's permission to distribute wip as a debian package:
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 16:32:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jim Morgan <morgan@astro.umd.edu>
To: gopal@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu
Subject: Re: Wip
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Gopal:
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998 gopal@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu wrote:
>
> Anyway, to make things easier in installing wip in several of our
> machines, I made a debian package of wip-2.3. Since I have got so
> much
> out of the free software community, I am considering maintaining
> some
> debian packages. Specifically, I would like to maintain wip in the
> debian environment. This typically only involves debianizing any
> upstream releases and taking care of bug reports. I am sure that
> there
> are many users that would benefit from a debian wip package.
>
> I learnt that you are no longer with BIMA, and you don't maintain
> WIP
> on an ongoing basis. I first wanted to know if I can get permission
> from you to distribute wip as a debian package. With the copyright
> conditions reading as they do in the WIP user manual, I believe this
> program will not qualify as "free" software. Instead, it would fall
> under the non-free section of debian. Please confirm if that is the
> case.
>
I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. I do not check
this mail very often. Since I am still developing and maintaining
WIP, I still need to monitor it, but I do not do it as often as I
like.
I have no problem with you developing the Debian package. In fact,
this will certainly be useful to the many other WIP users on Linux
machines. I would like to ask you to send the equivalent of the
Debian spec file so I can insert it in the WIP distribution. That way
it will be distributed and accessible to anyone who downloads the
release. I understand that there are several ways you can build WIP
within the Debian package. How are you proceeding? Are you going to
just put a binary in the package or will your spec file build the
binary from source code? Will the binary use sharable libraries or
will/can it be built as a static binary?
The only concern (which you touched on) is that WIP belongs to me
and the BIMA group; it is not considered free source. So, the code
will need to retain copyright information and could not fall into the
"free" software catagory.
Take care,
jm
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