Hi, Last week, I posted the message below to debian-legal. Didn't get any response, however. Am I missing something really obvious? If so, could someone please bang me on my head for it?
Am I just stuck, with this upstream maintainer not responding? Is there no other way than to contact the maintainer, to get around the copyright issue? Hope somebody can give me some hint on this. Bye, Joost van Baal -- http://mdcc.cx/ ----- Forwarded message from Joost van Baal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 17:30:16 +0200 From: Joost van Baal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: blackened copyright Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I'd like to package blackened (an ircII based irc client, http://www.blackened.com/blackened) for Debian. However, the current blackened tar ball still caries the old ircII copyright statement, which says " IRC II is copyright (c) 1990 by Michael Sandrof. You have the right to copy, compile, and maintain this software. You also have the right to make modifcations to this code for local use ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ only. ^^^^ " I know David Welton spoke to the ircII coders about this, which resulted in a less strict license. (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-publicity-9806/msg00006.html) I saw that e.g. bitchx, another ircII based client, carries this new license now. Should blackened be released under this new license? What is the position of the blackened maintainer, Timothy Jensen, in this? Does this make the blackened code free, in the Debian Software Guidelines sence? Does it matter the old copyright statement still gets distributed with the blackened code? I'd really like it if blackened could go in main. I contacted the maintainer, but he's not very responsive lately :( I'd be very glad if someone could make this issues a bit more clear for me. Thanks, Bye, Joost van Baal -- http://mdcc.cx/ ----- End forwarded message -----
