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[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435214: marked as done (octave-sp: license is neither GPL-compatible nor DFSG-free)

Your message dated Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:02:12 +0000
with message-id <E1IQfum-0000Xn-2i@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#435214: fixed in semidef-oct 1:2003-5
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: octave-sp
Version: 1:2003-4
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1

The copyright file lists the following:

    COPYRIGHT 1994 LIEVEN VANDENBERGHE AND STEPHEN BOYD
    Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for 
    any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire 
    notice is included in all copies of any software which is or includes
    a copy or modification of this software and in all copies of the 
    supporting documentation for such software.

Notice that it only grants permission to use/copy/modify "without fee".  
Thus, this software cannot be distributed commercially and hence 
violates the DFSG.  (Probably the authors intended "without fee" to 
apply to the permission, not as a condition on distribution etc., but 
unfortunately that does not follow unambiguously from a literal 
reading.)

However, I happen to know Stephen Boyd personally (he is a Stanford 
professor), and he is a big free-software and GNU/Linux proponent who 
would doubtless be happy to clarify the license terms (or just switch to 
the standard MIT/X11 license language) if contacted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.33-vpsX (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave-sp depends on:
ii  atlas3-base [liblapack. 3.6.0-20.6       Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  fftw3                   3.1.2-2          library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library
ii  libgfortran1            4.1.2-13         Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  libhdf5-serial-1.6.5-0  1.6.5-5+b1       Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  libncurses5             5.6+20070716-1   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5            5.2-3            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070712-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  octave2.1               1:2.1.73-13      GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

octave-sp recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Source: semidef-oct
Source-Version: 1:2003-5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
semidef-oct, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

octave-sp_2003-5_i386.deb
  to pool/main/s/semidef-oct/octave-sp_2003-5_i386.deb
semidef-oct_2003-5.diff.gz
  to pool/main/s/semidef-oct/semidef-oct_2003-5.diff.gz
semidef-oct_2003-5.dsc
  to pool/main/s/semidef-oct/semidef-oct_2003-5.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 435214@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> (supplier of updated semidef-oct package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue,  7 Aug 2007 16:48:44 +0200
Source: semidef-oct
Binary: octave-sp
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1:2003-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
Description: 
 octave-sp  - Semidefinite Programming functions for GNU Octave
Closes: 432376 435214
Changes: 
 semidef-oct (1:2003-5) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Cyril Brulebois ]
   * debian/control:
     - Updated versioned B-D on octave2.1-headers (from 2.1.65 to 1:2.1.73-14)
       to ensure the switch from gfortran to g77 happened, since gfortran now
       points to gfortran-4.2, which leads to FTBFS:
       ``/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortranbegin'' (Closes: #432376).
       Urgency set to ``high'' accordingly.
     - Added myself to the Uploaders field.
 .
   [ Rafael Laboissiere ]
   * debian/control: Actually, updated the build-dependency to
     octave2.9-headers, since 2.9 is the recommended version of Octave
     now.  The fix described above still holds.
   * debian/copyright: Added statement from the upstream authors about
     their agreement to switch the license of the package to LGPL
     (closes: #435214)
Files: 
 17517f85364fe0f84a7ef811c27aa676 924 math optional semidef-oct_2003-5.dsc
 c1588fd74e7ef21999579e880c251fbc 7662 math optional semidef-oct_2003-5.diff.gz
 864920ad0872b92565fc1ed0a371e1c6 325502 math optional octave-sp_2003-5_i386.deb

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