[Bug 215444] Review Request: netcdf-perl Perl extension module for scientific data access via the netCDF API

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Summary: Review Request: netcdf-perl Perl extension module for scientific data access via the netCDF API


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215444





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-11-14 04:51 EST -------
I already made a package, but never submitted it due to the license
issue, see below.

I attach a modified spec file:

- Avoid using the top-level Makefile for perl
- ship the netcdf-2 man page as it is the interface implemented
- rename to perl-NetCDF

When the top-level Makefile is used for make or make install it
isn't a pure_install and it tries to write on the local filesystem.

It seems to me that it should be named like any other perl module.
It may be worth adding:
Provides: netcdf-perl = %{version}-%{release}

There is a serious license issue, netcdf-perl isn't OSI compatible
because of the following restriction in use (in COPYRIGHT):

  Further, the user agrees to credit
  UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this
  software or in any product that includes this software.

This was also in the netcdf licence, but UCAR accepted to change it 
to:
  Further, UCAR requests that the user credit
  UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this
  software or in any product that includes this software, although this
  is not an obligation.

(they added although this is not an obligation at my request, because
I misunderstood what was the real meaning if 'request'...)

So there is no doubt that it is still the OSI-uncompliant license because
netcdf-perl was never updated, not because UCAR don't agree to distribute
it under the same license than netcdf. However, I think you'll have to
contact them for clarification. I don't think there is a need for a new
release, a simple mail by UCAR agreeing to distribute netcdf-perl under 
the same terms than netcdf would be enough, and then you could add the 
mail and the netcdf licence to the .src.rpm.

For the license NetCDF use NetCDF, I think you could use that, if after
clarification it is the same licence than NetCDF.

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