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

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 30/05/14 at 11:29 +0900, mejiko wrote:
> Package: scilab
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.1
> 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Scilab include non-free codes.
> 
> 
> File List:
> 
> 
> 1) "scilab-<version>/modules/polynomials/src/fortran/rpoly.f"
> 2) "scilab-<version>/modules/randlib/src/c/fsultra.c"

Hi,

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've pinged the upstream bug report again.

Lucas