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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 13/12/2014 11:49, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 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.
Indeed. I don't have more news. Maybe Vincent knows more.
>>> 2) "scilab-<version>/modules/randlib/src/c/fsultra.c"
> This file is currently not commented on in the upstream bug report.
Yes, I have to remove this algorithm from the package. It is not really
used and it should be easy to get ride of it.
>
>> 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.
>
Sorry, I did that a while ago and I don't really remember where I find
it. :(
I don't think it is a bit issue here.

Sylvestre



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