The following ITP went to <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> a few days ago. However, there is so much noise over there that, of courtesy, I ought to have posted it here too. The ITP follows below. The BTS number is 413128.
Florian Weimer believes that the package might experience license problems. I do not think that it will, but on the other hand upstream has not actually released the work yet; so, Florian might be right. For the time being, the assumption is that the license will resemble that of Abramowitz & Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions or of NIST's libtnt/libjama. ----- Forwarded message from "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : nist-dlmf Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dlmf.nist.gov/ * License : U.S. government issue, uncopyrighted (refer to Abramowitz & Stegun, page II) Description : NIST's Digital Library of Mathematical Functions >From the upstream web site: Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables is being completely rewritten with regard to the needs of today. The new DLMF (Digital Library of Mathematical Functions) will appear in a hardcover edition and as a free electronic publication on the World Wide Web. The authors will review the relevant published literature and produce approximately twice the number of formulas that were contained in the original Handboook. The DLMF will make full use of advanced communications and computational resources to present downloadable math data, manipulable graphs, tables of numerical values, and math-aware search. The authoritative status of the existing Handbook, and its orientation toward applications in science, statistics, engineering and computation, will be preserved. Thus the utilitarian value of the Handbook will be extended far beyond its original scope and the traditional limitations of printed media. The term digital library has gained acceptance for this kind of information resource, and our choice of project title reflects our hope that the NIST DLMF will be a vehicle for revolutionizing the way applicable mathematics in general is practiced and delivered. NIST plans to release the DLMF during 2007. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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