{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855/events","html_url":"https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855","id":125012299,"number":1855,"title":"Removal of 'lena' image","user":{"login":"sergiopasra","id":890104,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/890104?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra","html_url":"https://github.com/sergiopasra","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sergiopasra/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2016-01-05T17:25:57Z","updated_at":"2016-01-11T09:44:36Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The lena image has been removed from scipy and matplotlib due to its copyright\r\n\r\n* https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/4927\r\n* https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/5162\r\n\r\nDebian considers the image non-free\r\n* https://lintian.debian.org/tags/license-problem-non-free-img-lenna.html\r\n\r\nFedora thinks the same\r\n* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1295193\r\n\r\nIt seems that this image has been removed from examples and tests\r\n* https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/1126\r\n\r\nBut it is still in the distribution. I suggest to go the scipy way and deprecate the data.lena() function but raise a RuntimeError\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/comments/170489507","html_url":"https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855#issuecomment-170489507","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scikit-image/scikit-image/issues/1855","id":170489507,"user":{"login":"stefanv","id":45071,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45071?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv","html_url":"https://github.com/stefanv","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/stefanv/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-01-11T09:44:36Z","updated_at":"2016-01-11T09:44:36Z","body":"Perfect, thank you very much Sergio."}}