<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Johnny,<br><br></div>Thanks. Where might there be more info on the licensing issue? Googling this, I don't see any particular conversation showing up on some mailing list; maybe my google-foo isn't working today. Scanning over the licenses, I saw no issues; Tao seems to have exactly the same license as ACE.<br><br></div>Getting TAO packaged up is one of several steps for getting OpenDDS and then ROS2 available on Debian.<br><br></div>-- Linas<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Johnny Willemsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwillemsen@remedy.nl" target="_blank">jwillemsen@remedy.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
We had debian packaging for TAO but at some point it got removed, not<br>
100% sure why, some license issue as far as I remember. We try to keep<br>
ACE updated, as part of ACE we maintain the ACE debian packaging file<br>
but if there are suggestions/improvements, feel free to submit them as<br>
PR at <a href="https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/DOCGroup/<wbr>ACE_TAO</a><br>
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Johnny Willemsen<br>
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On 03/09/2018 08:27 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote:<br>
> "private" just means that they are not installed. They're in the source<br>
> tree, are used to build the package, but aren't part of the package.<br>
><br>
> The private header was in TAO, not ACE. So; libtao builds with some IDL<br>
> header, but that IDL header is not part of libtao-dev so not installed<br>
> on the user's system.<br>
><br>
> OpenDDS needed that header ...<br>
><br>
> The biggest problem here is that there is no libtao, no libtao-dev, no<br>
> maintainers for it in Debian. It sounds to me like the first step is<br>
> ... find someone who wants to be libtao maintainer -- and openDDS<br>
> maintainer, too. <br>
><br>
> Hopefully, this is easier than convincing someone to go to the dentist.<br>
><br>
> --linas<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Ean Schuessler <<a href="mailto:eanschuessler2@gmail.com">eanschuessler2@gmail.com</a><br>
</span><span class="im HOEnZb">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:eanschuessler2@gmail.com">eanschuessler2@gmail.<wbr>com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> The bug in question is 619213 which says that OpenDDS can't be<br>
> packaged because of private ACE headers. Are these headers something<br>
> beyond the libace-dev packages or is the license issue resolved?<br>
><br>
> It looked to us like all the ACE headers are under the same license?<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Ean<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Linas Vepstas<br>
</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> <<a href="mailto:linasvepstas@gmail.com">linasvepstas@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:linasvepstas@gmail.com">linasvepstas@gmail.com</a><wbr>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I'm getting asked questions about Debian packages for libtao-dev<br>
> -- it seems that these used to exist ten years ago, but are no<br>
> more. I'm being told that they are needed to build OpenDDS, and<br>
> that in turn, this is needed to build ROS2 (robot operating<br>
> system) and that this is blocking the packaging of OpenDDS and<br>
> ROS2 for Debian.<br>
><br>
> Do any of you know anything more about this? What happened to<br>
> libtao?<br>
><br>
> Linas<br>
><br>
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