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

[Vincent COUVERT]

Hello,
On 12/14/2014 10:01 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 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.
We are still working on it and we have to check the results of this new 
implementation.
>>>> 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.
What do you think about adding a compilation option for it?

Vincent
>>> 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.
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> Sylvestre
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