[Python-modules-team] Comments regarding python-scipy_0.14.0-1_amd64.changes

[Julian Taylor]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Thorsten Alteholz
<ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> can you please explain why files containing such text:
> (scipy-0.14.0/scipy/io/tests/data/*.sav)
>
>  NOTICE:
>
>   IDL Save/Restore files embody unpublished proprietary information
>   about the IDL program. Reverse engineering of this file is therefore
>   forbidden under the terms of the IDL End User License Agreement
>   (IDL EULA). All IDL users are required to read and agree to the
>   terms of the IDL EULA at the time that they install IDL.
>   Software that reads or writes files in the IDL Save/Restore format
>   must have a license from ITT Visual Information Solutions
>   explicitly granting the right to do so. In this case, the license
>   will be included with the software for your inspection. Please
>   report software that does not have such a license to
>   ITT Visual Information Solutions (info at ittvis.com).
>
> can be added to main?
>
> Thanks!
>  Thorsten
>
>

the implementation that reads these files (scipy/io/idl.py) contains
following statement:

# This code was developed by with permission from ITT Visual Information
# Systems. IDL(r) is a registered trademark of ITT Visual Information Systems,
# Inc. for their Interactive Data Language software.

I'll check with upstream if they have more detailed documentation on
the extent of the permission.