[Bug 470173] Review Request: m4ri - Linear Algebra over F_2

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--- Comment #7 from Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>  2008-11-10 03:39:03 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Note that if we only trust the code and docs in the tarball, the license is
> GPL+ as far as I can tell.  If we additionally consult the web site, its
> GPLv2+.  Unfortunately we have to be precise here.  Ultimately, clarification
> from upstream is the best step.  An email from them is sufficient; a fixed
> tarball is ideal but not necessary.  Otherwise we'll wait to see what the legal
> folks have to say.

Is an email from them much better than the front page of their website
proclaiming GPLv2+? I've sent the maintainer an email about it anyways and
await a reply.

> The new package builds fine; rpmlint spews a no-documentation complaint about
> the -static package but that's nothing to worry about.
> 
> About the library versioning thing, my concern is that something built against
> this package will end up needing -devel installed at runtime because the linker
> won't understand the different versioning convention and will end up with a
> dependency on libm4ri.so instead of libm4ri-0.0.20081029.so.  This should be
> relatively easy to verify if you have some software which uses this library
> around to check.

Sorry, I don't have any software around using this library. The goal is to
eventually get Sage itself packaged properly, and this is one of the
subprojects it encompasses.

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