[Quantian-general] Additional packages to Quantian

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 June 2006 at 13:24, Charles Plessy wrote:
| I could not find the list on your website (it is not
| http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian/quantian_0.7.9.2.quantian.packages.txt,
| isn't it?). If you provide me a copy of your list, I can extract the

That's the one. I presume you have that as my weblogs show that it downloads
fine. 

| packages related to biology, and then maintain a list of packages of
| interests in which I could provide a few additional informations.
| 
| What is your policiy about non-DFSG software? Do you make a special
| exemption for the many "free for non-commercial / non-profit academic
| use" which are very frequent in the scientific world? This would in
| theory exclude the possibility of distributing copies for of the CD /
| DVD for a fee. However, one could think about asking for special
| permission to the copyright holders, but it makes sense only if it is
| done for all packages, not only the biology ones...

I prefer DFSG software. I have made exceptions (and commercial apps like
acroread are a clear exception), but I'd rather not.  Folks are free to
remaster if they really really must have those, but I'd rather keep only DFSG
software.  Some things are hard to get rid off -- people really want scilab
it seems.

Dirk

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