Seeking review for science packages...

[Michael Banck]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:37:04PM +0100, Kjeldgaard Morten wrote:
> 1. Torque <http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=torque>
> a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed  
> compute nodes. Torque is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12. It is a  
> widespread package for beowulf type HPC clusters. Torque has a pretty  
> strange semi-restricted license, but I discussed it with a number of  
> people on #ubuntu-motu; eventually there was a concensus that the  
> package could go into universe. This is a pretty complicated 10  
> subpackage package with servers and stuff.

FWIW, the torque license got discussed on debian-legal some years ago,
and it was sort of consensus that it's non-free for Debian.


Michael