[iraf] 01/01: Add notice about Numerical Recipes

[Ole Streicher]

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commit 58526b4f62e1b339a86736129fb1f6ca3c87577f
Author: Ole Streicher <debian at liska.ath.cx>
Date:   Sat May 17 17:08:02 2014 +0200

    Add notice about Numerical Recipes
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 debian/copyright | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 884263a..878fa53 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Source: ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/
 
 Files: *
 Copyright: 1986,1995 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.
+ 1986 Numerical Recipes Software.
  1984-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc
  1990-2001 by AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Bellcore
  1995-1999 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
@@ -46,6 +47,18 @@ Comment: If another compiler than gcc is used, the files
  The files pkg/*/ytab.[ch] are licensed by the GPL, but as a special
  exception they are allowed to be distributed under any license in our
  case. So, they are also covered by this MIT license.
+Notice: There are some files copied from Numerical Recipes in the distribution.
+ Since they are usually not freely distributable, I asked upstream and got the
+ following response from Mike Fitzpatrick:
+ http://iraf.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=1468262
+ .
+ We have explicit permission from the authors to use this derived code so long
+ as the following copyright is included in the file:
+ .
+  # Based on Numerical Recipes by Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, and Vetterling.
+  # Used by permission of the authors.
+  # Copyright(c) 1986 Numerical Recipes Software.
+
 
 Files: sys/gio/ncarutil/*
 Copyright: Copyright (C) 1986, 2007-2011 University Corporation for

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