Awhile ago I asked about the copyright in plan and there was a slight vagueness with the original. I have emailed the author and he replied that he would change the actual copyright file inthe next release, but not until then. Can I then incorporate part of this email note into /usr/doc/copyright and upload it into the free part of debian? Cheers, Colin.
-----------begin copyright This package was debianized by Colin R. Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 31 May 1997 11:09:23 -0400. It was downloaded from <ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/graphics/plan/plan-1.6.1.tar.gz> Copyright: plan is Copyrighted by Thomas Driemeyer, 1993-1996. License to copy, publish, and distribute is granted to everyone provided that three conditions are met: - my name and email address, "Thomas Driemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] berlin.de>" must remain in the distribution and any documentation that was not part of this distribution. In particular, my name and address must be shown in the About popup. - if you redistribute a modified version, the fact that the version is modified must be stated in all places that my name is shown. - this copyright notice must be included in your distribution. If these conditions are met, you can do whatever you like. The idea is that I would be pissed if someone else claimed he wrote the thing, and I don't want bugs introduced by others attributed to me. Make as much money with it as you can. Drop me a line, I am curious. If you put plan on a CD, send me a free copy if your company policy allows it. There are no implied or expressed warranties for plan. I do not claim it is good for anything whatsoever, and if you lose your precious data or your dog dies this is entirely your problem. Addendum: The second last paragraph above is not clear and the upstream author will replace it next release with the following: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 5 14:10:17 1997 Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 22:07:38 +0200 (MST) From: Thomas Driemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: plan On Fri, 30 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote: > This would seem to require any CD-makers to send the author a free > copy if their company policy does not explicitly forbid it. That > would put CD-makers in some amount of risk if they forget to send the > "complementary" CD, thus it is non-free. > > If the statement was intended to only mean "if you want to do it", > it's free, but the statement needs to be clarified. It seems I don't have the mind of a lawyer. (Is this good or bad?) SuSE is a company that puts together Linux distributions, and they send free CDs to their contributors. I liked the concept and wanted to encourage it in the README. It seems that the wording is more strict than intended. Of course I didn't intend to put anyone at risk, I _want_ this to appear on as many CDs as possible. So, since I don't want to re-release just to change the README, how about this clarification: If you put plan on a CD, send me a free copy if your company policy allows it and you want to. (Not obligatory, I just collect trophies.) -------------end copyright -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at <URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
