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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]