Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: xtide - Calculate tide all over the world https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211626 ------- Additional Comments From pertusus@xxxxxxx 2006-10-23 05:22 EST ------- I cannot find the harmonics source file by using the provided Source. I found the licence of the file, and it seems that it isn't free data like free software (no selling): http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/harmonics_boilerplate.txt I don't know exactly how to deal with this issue. First the issue of mixing with xtide. It may be legal to distribute it together with GPLed programs if the GPL don't apply to data, only to software, and if it isn't the case, it would be possible to put the harmonics file in a separate package. I personnally think that it would be better to put the harmonics file in a separate src.rpm if the licence is really for non commercial use only. That kind of data may be legally redistributed by fedora, however it will be troublesome if somebody sells fedora. So they definitively cannot be packaged as-is. It seems to me that the best thing to do would be to add a README/something in the description in the packages needing the harmonics file and provide a shell script which does a wget on the file, run the tcd-util conversion on it and install, or alternatively download directly the .tcd file. The wvs file should be used (provided the licence is acceptable for fedora). I couldn't find the licence at the url provided at the xtide page. Maybe ask upstream or the NOAA? http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/93mgg01.html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/BOUNDARY/WVS/ >From reading of the code, one can set the WVS_DIR variable to the directory holding the wvs data files, or it may be listed in xtide.conf. It seems to me that WVS_DIR must be set for tideEditor. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review