Bug#749833: scilab: Scilab include non-free codes

[Paul Gevers]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:22:51 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> wrote:
> On 30/05/14 at 11:29 +0900, mejiko wrote:
> > 1) "scilab-<version>/modules/polynomials/src/fortran/rpoly.f"

There is work in progress upstream (status 13 Dec 2014: Review in
Progress). The amount of code is not much, but I am not able to judge
the workings. Review is needed if this should go into Debian for Jessie.

> > 2) "scilab-<version>/modules/randlib/src/c/fsultra.c"

This file is currently not commented on in the upstream bug report.

> The versions of scilab in squeeze and wheezy already included those
> files, with the same license. I wonder if this shouldn't simply be
> jessie-ignored, given that both codes are fairly old mathematical codes.

I think if Sylvestre is right with his statement "Old ACM algorithms
were in a kind of public domain but they updated their license policies"
[1] than we can jessie-ignore this. @Sylvestre: do you have any data
that would substantiate this? Should we just file a bug against
release.debian.org (the RT) and ask to jessie-ignore this bug? If the
rpoly implementation is good than only the second file would need
jessie-ignore.

Paul

* Touched this bug during https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2014/12/nl/Tilburg

[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-science-maintainers/2010-February/002806.html


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