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