Licence check

Open Hellseher opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug While preparing the IRAF for Guix I would like to clarify which licence(s) the source is distributed and whether it compliances with FOSS licenses.

I see quite a veriaty licenses in licenses while:

IRAF is licensed under a MIT style license -- see the file COPYRIGHT.

Thanks, Oleg

Jul 01 '24 21:07 Hellseher

The majority of the IRAF code was written by NOAO and is under the IRAF license. However there are some places where 3rd party code is included in the code. These places are documented in licenses/README, which the corresponding licenses listed in the licenses directory.

All licenses are conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. IRAF is included in Debian main since 2017 without any doubt about its license.

Note that earlier versions (NOAOs 2.16.1 and earlier) had non-free code included. This code was removed in preparation of the packaging for Debian.

Jul 02 '24 08:07 olebole