Hello. My name is David MartÃnez. I'm packaging rat 4.x. rat was in
non-free, because of its license, but in fact only rat 3.x is affected by
this more restrictive license, not rat 4.x. UCL claims that their license is
open-source, but there's several bits that don't look clear, at least to me.
Rat homepage is:
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/rat/index.html
Below is the content of
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/rat/license.html:
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RAT 4 License
Copyright (c) 1995-2000 University College London
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, is permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must
display the following acknowledgement:
"This product includes software developed by the Computer Science Department
at University College London"
Neither the name of the University nor of the Department may be used to
endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
This software is derived, in part, from publically available and contributed
source code with the following copyright:
Copyright (C) 1991-1993,1996 Regents of the University of California
Copyright (C) 1992 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Copyright (C) 1991-1992 RSA Data Security, Inc
Copyright (C) 1992 Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, TU Berlin
Copyright (C) 1994 Paul Stewart
Copyright (C) 2000 Nortel Networks
Copyright (C) 2000 Argonne National Laboratory
Copyright (C) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc. (Bellcore)
Copyright (C) 1996 Internet Software Consortium.
Copyright (C) 1995-1999 WIDE Project
This product includes software developed by the Computer Systems Engineering
Group and by the Network Research Group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
The WB-ADPCM algorithm was developed by British Telecommunications plc.
Permission has been granted to use it for non-commercial research and
development projects. BT retain the intellectual property rights to this
algorithm.
Encryption features of this software use the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5
Message-Digest Algorithm.
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I really don't know how to deal with MD5 and WB-ADPCM.
One thing more: Do I need to subscribe to debian-legal? If not, please
Cc:
me replies of this mail.
I'm in contact with the upstream authors, I can ask them some things if
it's
needed.
Thank you very much in advance,
David.
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