[SciPy-Dev] removing the Lena image

[Eric Larson]

+1 for removal.

It sounds to me like we've reached sufficient convergence on the issue of
removing the image. I'm happy to open a PR with an error suggesting the
existing `ascent` and `face` (https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/351/files)
instead, unless someone else is already on it.

Eric


On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The Lena image that we ship is a standard image in the image processing
> literature, however it's also controversial (see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna). That was the reason for:
> - adding 2 new images in scipy 0.12.0 (
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/351)
> - recommending to not using Lena in the documentation in scipy 0.16.0 (
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/4785)
>
> Now it looks like Debian was decided that the licensing of this image is
> NOK and that it needs to be removed from all of Debian. Which hasn't
> affected Scipy yet but has affected scikit-image (it's "marked for
> auto-removal"):
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scikit-image/q36bajdvWew
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scikit-image/8d15Egg7qAY
>
> I know opinions on the image itself and on Debian's action will vary, but
> I'd like to be pragmatic here and prevent issues with Scipy packaging in
> Debian. Therefore I propose to do the same as what scikit-image will do:
> remove Lena for the next release and raise an error from the
> scipy.misc.lena() function.
>
> Ralf
>
>
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