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:
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:
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
Regards, Daniel
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
