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Bug#752876: r-cran-spdep_0.6-4-1_amd64.changes REJECTED



Hi Andreas,

Please tell them that I am not willing to make any further changes. If they bothered to look, they would have seen that the functions are not simply copied from arm.c, but modified to use double rather than integer coordinates. I can add arm.c for documentation and change the soigraph.c function names to show that they are modified from those in arm.c, but I do not see the point.

Best wishes,

Roger

On Mon, 30 May 2016, Andreas Tille wrote:

Hi again Roger,

this is just a ping in case you might have missed my last mail about the
licensing of the file copied from "Computational Geometry in C".  Were
you able to clarify the issue or to rewrite the code in question?

Thanks for your cooperation

      Andreas.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 05:26:09PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi Roger,

I'm afraid I need to come back to you again about the licensing of the
file in question in the spdep package.  Please read below what the
Debian ftpmasters think about the license:

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:00:23PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:

Hi Andreas,

ok, one step further, but two questions remain:

- "... in its entirety ...", not being a native speaker, but for me that
  sounds like you are only allowed to distribute the whole example code
  and are not allowed to use just parts of it
- anyway, the main point is that you are only allowed to redistribute
  the code but have no permission to modify it, which is against DFSG 3.

  Thorsten

I'm sorry that this is such a longish process bit it would be really
cool if you could have another look or try to contact the authors (or
rewrite this code? - I think in some previous conversation you wrote
about this option as well).

Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation

      Andreas.

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