[Debian-med-packaging] Please mark cufflinks as auto-buildable
Alex Mestiashvili
amestia at rsh2.donotuse.de
Wed Oct 24 11:00:29 BST 2018
Dear Nonfree/release Team,
could you please enable auto-building of non-free package cuffliks on
Debian's buildds?
The package is non-free due to restrictive license of one of the
components - locfit. As far as I see the license not forbidding
auto-building of the package.
Full d/copyright file:
https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/cufflinks/blob/master/debian/copyright
For your convenience here is the full copyright text of locfit:
Files: src/locfit/*
Copyright: © 1996-2001 Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories.
© 1996-2001 Catherine Loader.
License: Locfit
ABOUT ALGORITHMS: The Locfit implementation has been designed
largely from the point of view of generality: to provide a set of
functions that can be used for as wide a range of local fitting
problems as possible. It is not intended to be the fastest or most
efficient implementation possible. In addition to generality, the code
in many places makes extensive trade-offs made between speed and
numerical accuracy (some of which can be controlled through optional
arguments). Many of Locfit's options will only be used in a small
fraction of cases; for other cases, they add to the cost of overhead
(an obvious example is multi-dimensional fitting: when used in 1-d,
many loops reduce to for(i=0;i<1;i++)). Additionally, the user
interfaces (i.e. the R and S-Plus code) add significantly to the
computational overhead. For these reasons, the Locfit code, as
distributed, should not, and can not, be used to derive meaningful
benchmarks, either for the speed or accuracy of algorithms. Anyone
wishing to use Locfit in any kind of comparative benchmark study must
contact and obtain permission from the Author.
Thank you,
Alex
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