On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:34:31 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:20:57 +0100 Alastair McKinstry wrote: [...] > > I've been looking at packaging SILO, a mandatory dependency of VisIt. [...] > This seems to be very awkward: a Free Software application (VisIt) > which links with a non-free library (Silo) by the same authors! > :-( > > > > > AFAIK, this is a show-stopper for packaging VisIT. We could write to > > LLNL and see if they > > are willing to relinquish this, > > I think this should definitely be done.
I got in touch with Silo's upstream. They quickly replied in an encouraging manner. First thing they told me is that Silo is no longer a mandatory dependency for VisIt: they say it's been an *optional* dependency for quite some time. Alastair, did you try building VisIt without enabling the Silo plugin? I think VisIt could be packaged for Debian (main) with the Silo plugin disabled, while we wait for upstream to re-license Silo in a DFSG-free manner... Does it sound feasible? > > > but since I started this ITP, Paraview has been packaged for > > Debian, and it does my visualisation needs, so I am no longer > > packaging visit. > > > > Sorry about this, Alastair, does the above pieces of news change anything with respect to your willingness to package VisIt? Please let me know: thanks in advance. -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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