[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#491794: arpack: DFSG-incompatible license

Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert at wgdd.de
Tue Jul 22 14:09:41 UTC 2008


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






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