On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Timothy G Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ((c)) 2001, Rice University > Developed by D.C. Sorensen, R.B. Lehoucq, C. Yang, and K. Maschhoff. > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are > met: > . Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > . Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > . 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 > any resulting publications or software documentation.
Yes, I think this ^^ makes it non-free. I didn't know arpack uses such a crappy license. Thanks for noticing! Christophe, I think we need to move the package to non-free. Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
