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Re: fftw3 and octave
On Apr 1 00:02, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Of course static. The only dependency needed was fftw3
>> so I adopted it.
>
> Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but cygwin binary software is under
> the GPL (or compatible open source license), because it is linked against
> the cygwin1.dll.
>
> This means that, for ALL software linked into the binaries included in the
> cygwin distribution, we MUST also distribute the source.
>
> Including static libraries.
>
> The most convenient way to ensure this is for all dependent libraries to
> ALSO be members of the cygwin distribution.
>
> So, we usually don't allow software in the distro that links against
> libaries that AREN'T part of the distro -- unless you take special care to
> distribute also those EXACT sources as part of your fftw3-src package.
>
> I'll leave this to Corinna and cgf to decide, but it seems to me that
> either:
>
> (1) you must rebuild your official package without reliance on Qhull, Hdf5,
> and qlpk/SuiteSparse, or
> (2) include the EXACT Qhull/Hdf5/qlpk/SuiteSparse source code tarballs
> within the fftw3-src tarball
> (3) you [or someone else] must ITP these packages
100% correct.
Corinna
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