[R-pkg-team] Comments regarding r-bioc-lpsymphony_1.12.0+dfsg-1_amd64.changes

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Thorsten,

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 05:17:54PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> can you please explain the following line:
>  symphony/vignettes/figures/gomory.pdf:<</ModDate(D:20151218103737-05'00')/CreationDate(D:20151218103737-05'00')/Producer(iText <AE> 5.5.8 <A9>2000-2015 iText Group NV \(ONLINE PDF SERVICES; licensed version\))>>
> 
> Do I need to use some commercial software to create that pdf?

If you look at that image its a pretty simple graph that can be created
with a random graphing tool.  Finally you can never know whether
somebody has editet some free say C code with a commercial editor or
some free one.  I do not think that this is relevant for the license of
the file.  Finally iText is also in Debian libitext5-java and the
producer has choosen for whatever reason a licensed version.

Hope this is a sensible explanation.

Kind regards and thanks for your work as ftpmaster

     Andreas.

PS: In the set of r-bioc-* packages r-bioc-rhtslib is currently the
    most interesting one to fix some bugs.

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