Source: scidavis Version: 0.2.4-3.3 Severity: serious The files scidavis/src/nrutil.cpp and .h in SciDAVis (a QtiPlot fork) contain substantial verbatim portions of code from the Numerical Recipes book. The license of the code from the Numerical Recipes book blatantly conflicts with Debian DFSG, by explicitly restricting or forbidding distribution of the source code.
License text of Numerical Recipes, for reference: http://www.nr.com/aboutNR3license.html At the time of writing, using the following terms in the Google search engine, a version of the Numerical Recipes book can be found, which can perhaps be used to verify how the code in nrutil.cpp contains verbatim copies of substantial portions of the code in the book: Numerical Recipes filetype:pdf Possible fixes: - Its parent project QtiPlot had the same problem, and that part of the code has been rewritten somewhere between version 0.9.6.2 and 0.9.8.8 to use the free GSL library instead (GNU Scientific Library, included in Debian). Merge the changes from QtiPlot to SciDAVis, to get rid of the file. - Remove the functionality that nrutil.cpp provides. Such functionality includes at least the Savitzky-Golay smoothing method, and possibly more. - Remove the package entirely from Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
