[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#689951: Package appears to be non-free

[Charles Plessy]

Le Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
> Package: camitk
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: Policy 2.1
> 
> The camitk source code contains tetgen. Which is non-free license:
> 
> $ cat ./actions/mesh/meshprocessing/tetgen1.4.3/LICENSE 
> ...
> Distribution of  modified  versions  of this code is permissible UNDER
> THE CONDITION THAT  THIS CODE AND ANY MODIFICATIONS  MADE TO IT IN THE
> SAME SOURCE FILES  tetgen.h AND tetgen.cxx  REMAIN UNDER  COPYRIGHT OF
> THE  ORIGINAL AUTHOR,  BOTH  SOURCE AND OBJECT  CODE  ARE MADE  FREELY
> AVAILABLE  WITHOUT   CHARGE,   AND  CLEAR   NOTICE  IS  GIVEN  OF  THE 
> MODIFICATIONS.
> ...

Bonjour Mathieu,

the above clause would require a copyright transfer, which is not directly
mentionned.

Perhaps it is worth asking the author of tetgen if he just clumsily wanted to
require that his copyright notice must not be removed ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan