Bug#791399: [cimg] Non free image lenna

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Sun Jul 5 08:29:50 UTC 2015


Hi again,

On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 12:11:20AM +0200, David Tschumperlé wrote:
> > Would you consider a free license for these images?
> 
> Of course, pick the license you want for these. CeCILL-C is probably fine.

Thanks.
 
> > 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.

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

I'll do so.  However, I noticed that you moved to Github (which is fine)
but it is hard to obtain the release tarballs from there since you did
not tagged the releases.  Could you please tag each release since this is
the metainformation the Debian tools are detecting new versions.

Thanks a lot

     Andreas.

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