Scilab on Fedora and CeCILL license

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue Oct 28 21:42:01 UTC 2008


>>>>> "HJ" == Henrique Junior <henriquecsj at gmail.com> writes:

HJ> Hi all, Some time ago (FC6, F7?) SciLab[1] was in the Fedora repos
HJ> but it looks out now. Scilab is an amazing scientific software and
HJ> I'm interested in packaging it but first I want to know if is
HJ> someone working on it and if the CeCILL license[2] is Fedora
HJ> compatible.

The CeCILL license is listed as being acceptable on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing.

I do not believe that scilab has ever been in Fedora as its license
has only recently become acceptable.

 - J<




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