Bug#791399: [cimg] Non free image lenna

[David Tschumperlé]

Hi Andreas,

>
>
> > The stereo portrait and the parrot image are not free either (they are my
> > own pictures).
>
> Would you consider a free license for these images?
>

Of course, pick the license you want for these. CeCILL-C is probably fine.

>
> From a Debian point of view we are not allowed to include non-free
> images.  If these images would remain inside the package the whole
> package would be moved to non-free (at best).
>

In that case, just remove the image lena.bmp, it is actually not used by any
of the examples provided, nor the library itself of course.


> I will not question your arguments about the sense of those images.
> There is simply the fact that we are not allowed to ship non-free images
> in Debian main.  There might be an option to maintain an additional
> package cimg-data or cimg-examples in Debian non-free.  Could you
> specify all images which are not free (and can not be released under a
> free license).
>

The only not-free image is probably 'lena.bmp', and it can be removed safely
without impacting the library features or example codes.


> Kind regards and thanks for your quick reply
>
>
Take care,

David.
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