Le 19/12/2014 15:45, Gilles a écrit : > Hi. > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:19:09 +0100, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> This vote will close in 72 hours, at 2014-12-21T23:15:00Z (this is UTC >>> time). >> >> This vote is canceled in order to clean out both LICENSE and NOTICE >> files. >> >> Several attributions were in NOTICE that should not be there, but also >> the license from a part extracted from Scipy was missing in LICENSE, >> which is a critical problem. > > I'm not a lawyer... > But if this is deemed a "critical problem", I don't understand why > the release process does not always involve a legal review (by a > lawyer)! ;-} > > As it is, I do not agree that it was a "critical problem" that the > "LICENSE" file did not contain a/the Scipy license because, when I > used the referenced code, the source file contained only this: > > # ******NOTICE*************** > # optimize.py module by Travis E. Oliphant > # > # You may copy and use this module as you see fit with no > # guarantee implied provided you keep this notice in all copies. > # *****END NOTICE************ > > Without hairy interpretation, it would seem to me that the "NOTICE" > file was indeed the right place for giving credit, as requested. > > Furthermore there was no license file among the Debian-packaged > files of Scipy. > Neither Python nor Scipy is a dependency for Commons Math. > Neither source nor binary code is redistributed. > > The Python code was used in the same way that we use code published > on Wikipedia, MathWorld, or other references (a.o. "R") that provide > algorithm descriptions; yet I don't see any of their license or > "terms of use" in the "LICENCE" file. > > Hence, why should the Scipy license be mentioned in "LICENSE"?
Because of this: <http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/license.html> It is a classical BSD-like license, and as such must be in the LICENSE file, just as the other ones. Fortunately, it is a classical one. > > Please clarify the situation for this specific case, so that we > can learn where we can stop spending time on legalese nonsense. Hope this helps. best regards, Luc > > > Regards, > Gilles > >> >> Thanks to everyone who contributed to the review. >> >> best regards, >> Luc > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
