[SciPy-Dev] removing the Lena image

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Eric Larson <larson.eric.d at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +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.
>

Thanks Eric, a PR would be great.

Ralf



>
> 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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