Closed olebole closed 8 years ago
Yes, this is not a package but rather a place where routines can be contributed by the community. So any internal copyrights take precedence over the site information.
Craig Markwardt gave me permission to maintain future development of blkshift.pro so I have removed his copyright information.
The following files document a license that contradicts to the BSD-2 license of the whole package.
factor.pro
,getwrd.pro
,isarray.pro
,polrec.pro
,prime.pro
,recpol.pro
,repchr.pro
,sphdist.pro
, andymd2dn.pro
haveThis license restricts the distribution to not being sold, while the BSD license does not have such a restriction. Also, the file
disclaimer.txt
that is referenced in the copyright notice is missing.blkshift.pro
,jplephinterp.pro
,jplephread.pro
,jplephtest.pro
, andtdb2tdt.pro
haveThis license restricts the usage and distribution to non-commercial purposes, while the BSD license does not have this restriction. Also it does not allow the public distribution of modified files. As the modification history of these files document, this is already violated in the IDLAstro distribution:
eqpole_grid.pro
,qdcb_grid.pro
, andwcs_demo.pro
haveMy interpretation of this license is that usage and distribution is only allowed for the U.S. Government.
These licenses makes it impossible to distribute these files with open source distributions, like Debian. In Debian, there are Debian Free Software Guidelines that don't allow discrimination against fields of endeavor (point 6).
Could you clarify the licenses of these files? For some of them (
isarray.pro
,repchr.pro
,ymd2dn.pro
, ), there is a replacement in Debian.