Hi Charles,

[CCing Christophe]

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote:
> Le Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
>> Package: camitk
>> Severity: serious
>> Tags: upstream
>> Justification: Policy 2.1
>>
>> The camitk source code contains tetgen. Which is non-free license:
>>
>> $ cat ./actions/mesh/meshprocessing/tetgen1.4.3/LICENSE
>> ...
>> Distribution of  modified  versions  of this code is permissible UNDER
>> THE CONDITION THAT  THIS CODE AND ANY MODIFICATIONS  MADE TO IT IN THE
>> SAME SOURCE FILES  tetgen.h AND tetgen.cxx  REMAIN UNDER  COPYRIGHT OF
>> THE  ORIGINAL AUTHOR,  BOTH  SOURCE AND OBJECT  CODE  ARE MADE  FREELY
>> AVAILABLE  WITHOUT   CHARGE,   AND  CLEAR   NOTICE  IS  GIVEN  OF  THE
>> MODIFICATIONS.
>> ...
>
> Bonjour Mathieu,
>
> the above clause would require a copyright transfer, which is not directly
> mentionned.
>
> Perhaps it is worth asking the author of tetgen if he just clumsily wanted to
> require that his copyright notice must not be removed ?
>
> Have a nice day,

Actually all I did noticed is that tetgen is in non-free in debian already:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tetgen.html

Christophe are you in touch with upstream ?

Thanks,


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