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

[Vincent COUVERT]

On 12/18/2014 10:59 AM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> On 15/12/2014 15:54, Vincent COUVERT wrote:
>> 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.
> OK.
>
>>>>>> 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?
> We would still be shipping non free code. Not sure it is the best solution.
Ok, we will try to rewrite or remove it.

Vincent
>
> Sylvestre
>

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