Scilab on Fedora and CeCILL license

Tue Oct 28 21:54:05 UTC 2008

On Tuesday, 28 October 2008 at 22:32, Henrique Junior wrote:
> Hi all,
> Some time ago (FC6, F7?) SciLab[1] was in the Fedora repos
> but it looks out now.
> Scilab is an amazing scientific software and I'm interested
> in packaging it but first I want to know if is someone working
> on it and if the CeCILL license[2] is Fedora compatible.

Hi and welcome. Your enthusiasm is appreciated.

Yes, CeCILL license is acceptable in Fedora.

As for packagin scilab, I suggest you join forces with Nicolas Chauvet
(kwizart) and D Haley, who are working on packaging scilab and its
dependencies. It's going to be an uphill road, as some of the subdependecies
are turning out to be non-free. See bug 464781[1] for some current work
on this.

Regards,
R.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464781

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