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Package: arpack
Severity: serious
I believe the Rice BSD Software License of arpack violates the Debian Free
Software guidelines (I've included it below for convenience of reference).
Both parts of the fourth clause of the license below seem to violate the
DFSG. The first violates the standard Desert Island and Dissident tests.
I believe it has also been concluded in the past that requiring users to
cite software is not allowed, which the second sentence violates.
The third clause also seems to violate clause (4) of the DFSG, since it is
a restriction on distributing modifications other than the specifically
allowed restriction of requiring the separate distribution of patch files.
-Tim Abbott
The ARPACK license is BSD-like.
http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/RiceBSD.doc
Rice BSD Software License
Permits source and binary redistribution of the software ARPACK and
P_ARPACK for both non-commercial and commercial use.
Copyright (©) 2001, Rice University
Developed by D.C. Sorensen, R.B. Lehoucq, C. Yang, and K. Maschhoff.
All rights reserved.
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. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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. If you modify the source for these routines we ask that you change the
name of the routine and comment the changes made to the original.
. Written notification is provided to the developers of intent to use
this software. Also, we ask that use of ARPACK is properly cited in
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. Neither the name of Rice University (RICE) nor the names of its
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Source: arpack
Source-Version: 2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
arpack, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
arpack_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/a/arpack/arpack_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1.diff.gz
arpack_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1.dsc
to pool/main/a/arpack/arpack_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1.dsc
arpack_2.1+parpack96.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/a/arpack/arpack_2.1+parpack96.dfsg.orig.tar.gz
libarpack2-dbg_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
to pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2-dbg_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
libarpack2-dev_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
to pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2-dev_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
to pool/main/a/arpack/libarpack2_2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adam C. Powell, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated arpack package)
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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:09:12 -0500
Source: arpack
Binary: libarpack2 libarpack2-dev libarpack2-dbg
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Scientific Computing Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Adam C. Powell, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
libarpack2 - Fortran77 subroutines to solve large scale eigenvalue problems
libarpack2-dbg - Fortran77 subroutines to solve large scale eigenvalue problems
libarpack2-dev - Fortran77 subroutines to solve large scale eigenvalue problems
Closes: 491794
Changes:
arpack (2.1+parpack96.dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New tarball without non-free ug.ps file, now qualifies for main
(closes: #491794).
* Removed libarpack2-dev.doc-base because this was its only file.
* Modified copyright to indicate downloader and date for current
copyright/license.
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