[Debian-med-packaging] License of Tcode and SSJ

[Richard Simard]

On 04/17/2014 09:24 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team.  We are trying to
> inject any free software which is relevant in biology into main Debian.
> It has turned out that SSJ is a precondition for one of our targets and
> this in turn needs Tcode as precondition.  We have created a package of
> it but the code was rejected by our ftpmaster since he considers the
> license just beeing on some "random" web page not sufficient to accept
> it valid for the actual code (see discussion below).
>
> It would be really kind if you could do one of the following (according
> to the time you want to spent into this):
>
>     1. Create a new download archive that contains the text of the GPL
>        license explicitly.
>
>     2. Answer to this public mailing list that Tcode and SSJ are
>        really licensed under GPL and the text on your license page
>        applies to both source code archives.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for your support
>
>         Andreas.
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Hello Andreas,

I have added the copyright page for Tcode at

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/ssj/ssj-source.html

Both SSJ and Tcode are released under the GNU GPL, version 3.


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   Richard Simard<simardr at iro.umontreal.ca>
   Laboratoire de simulation et d'optimisation
   Université de Montréal, IRO