Bug#631068: audacity: Commercial use of nyquist not allowed

[Sam Geeraerts]

Package: audacity
Version: 1.3.12-6
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1.6
User: gnewsense-dev at nongnu.org
Usertags: gnewsense libreplanet

The file lib-src/libnyquist/nyquist/xlisp/xlbfun.c contains the following
license notice:

/*      Copyright (c) 1985, by David Michael Betz
        All Rights Reserved
        Permission is granted for unrestricted non-commercial use       */

This clearly does not permit commercial use. In the worst interpretation
it also doesn't allow modification or distribution.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  audacity-data          1.3.12-6          A fast, cross-platform audio edito
ii  libasound2             1.0.23-1          shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libexpat1              2.0.1-7           XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libflac++6             1.2.1-2+b1        Free Lossless Audio Codec - C++ ru
ii  libflac8               1.2.1-2+b1        Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.4-8         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.1-1+b1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libid3tag0             0.15.1b-10        ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.11 1:0.118+svn3796-7 JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libmad0                0.15.1b-5         MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0                1.2.0~dfsg-1      Ogg bitstream library
ii  libsamplerate0         0.1.7-3           Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsndfile1            1.0.21-3          Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libsoundtouch1c2       1.3.1-2           sound stretching library
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.4-8           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtwolame0            0.3.12-1          MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar
ii  libvamp-hostsdk3       2.1-1             helper library for Vamp hosts writ
ii  libvorbis0a            1.3.1-1           The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2          1.3.1-1           The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3         1.3.1-1           The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxbase2.8-0         2.8.10.1-3+b1     wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI
ii  libwxgtk2.8-0          2.8.10.1-3+b1     wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t

Versions of packages audacity recommends:
ii  libavcodec52                 4:0.5.2-6.1 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52                4:0.5.2-6.1 ffmpeg file format library

Versions of packages audacity suggests:
pn  ladspa-plugin                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  libmp3lame0                   <none>     (no description available)

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