[GRASS-dev] gmath and gpde update

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On 10/01/09 16:36, Soeren Gebbert wrote:
>>
>> Meschach is implemented in C and is able to replace the gmath library
>> completely with much better implementations.
>> I have integrated meschach into grass for testing purposes and, after some
>> very basic testing, it works nicely.
>> But im unsure if the licence of meschach is compatible with the GPL? Can
>> somebody please verify this? Im not an expert in licensing.
>
> This seems to be the relevant part:
>
> "The source code is available to be perused, used and passed on without
> cost, while ensuring that the quality of the software is not compromised."
>
> There is no mention of modification, and the second half of the sentence
> ("while ensuring that the quality of the software is not compromised")
> sounds quite suspicious to me. So, without claiming any expert knowledge
> either, I would be sceptical.

I checked Debian, it is there:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=meschach
http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meschach.html
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/meschach/current/copyright

Markus
(who damaged his working i.spec.unmix (see Addons-SVN) to
remove Meschach some years ago...)