From README.Debian: The scansyn and scansynx opcodes have a license incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. They have therefore been omitted from this build of Csound.
If the files sneaked back into the source tarball somehow then it was my mistake. On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 at 20:02 +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote: > Package: csound > Version: 1:4.23f13-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.2.1 > > > csound originally had a restrictive license allowing "educational and > research purposes only". Back on 2003 there was an effort to relicense > everything in csound as GNU LGPL: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/07/msg00621.html > > csound is now included in Debian main, but the copyright file in the > package does mention the old incompatible license for at least 4 source > files. > > I've verified that this notice is actually included on upstream source > files, so it appears that there are some files not licensed under LGPL, > or maybe it is just a mistake and forgot to update the notices when > relicensing. I hope it is because of the second case, but it should be > clarified anyways. > > This is the relevant excerpt of /usr/share/doc/csound/copyright: > > scansyn.c > scansyn.h > scansynx.c > scansynx.h > /* Scanned Synthesis Opcodes: > scansyn.c, scansyn.csd, scansyn.h and related files > are Copyright, 1999 by Interval Research. > Coded by Paris Smaragdis > From an algorithm by Bill Verplank, Max Mathews and Rob Shaw > > Permission to use, copy, or modify these programs and their documentation > for educational and research purposes only and without fee is hereby > [...] > -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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