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[Giovanni Mascellani <gio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That would be nice. I am the Debian maintainer for the package, but have
been unable to work effectively on it lately. There are also a few
problems connected with licensing, freeness and redistribution. In
particular, for sure GeoGebra is not free (as in free software) at the
moment, since some components (i18n, help files, ...) have a
noncommercial clause. It might still be redistributable, and thus finish
in Debian contrib/non-free and Ubuntu multiverse, however that requires
some careful checking as well. GeoGebra has a lot of dependencies, some
of which are very old software or with rather unclear licensing. A lot
of it is LGPL or Apache, which probably cause no problems, but there
might also be a few things that are under GPL. That might be
problematic, because the GPL-ed code would effectively be distributed
and used together with the nonfree components I said above.

A list of the dependencies of GeoGebra is here:
https://dev.geogebra.org/trac/wiki/SourcesForUsedLibraries. However
there are good reasons to believe the list to be both incorrect
(OpenGeoProver is considered GPL3, but nothing in the original
repository supports this speculation) and incomplete (there is a generic
"Others" point at the end). So it must be fixed in order to assess what
can be done with GeoGebra at the moment.

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  geogebra needs updating to version 5

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