[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#491794: arpack: DFSG-incompatible license

[Timothy G Abbott]

I don't think the statement from the authors is sufficient, but we should 
ask debian-legal's opinion on this license; the Rice BSD Software License 
does not seem to have been discussed there in the past.

This issue is also relevant for the sagemath package that I'll be 
uploading to NEW probably tomorrow; at the moment I'm doing the 
conservative thing and removing ARPACK from the sagemath package.

 	-Tim Abbott

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote:

> forcemerge 451096 491794
> severity 451096 serious
> thanks
>
> (set to serious just for the moment - set back or close if the license
> clarification solves this issue)
>
> Am Montag, den 21.07.2008, 17:54 -0400 schrieb Timothy G Abbott:
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>> I believe the Rice BSD Software License of arpack violates the Debian Free
>> Software guidelines (I've included it below for convenience of reference).
>
> I don't believe, you are right (IANAL). See:
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> http://bugs.debian.org/491794.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214967
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234191
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/arpack/current/copyright
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-scicomp/arpack/trunk/debian/ARPACK_License_Question.eml?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
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> Regards, Daniel
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