Folks,
I maintain GNU R (www.r-project.org and www.$ISOCODE.project.org) and a
growing number of packages from its CRAN archive (cran.r-project.org, also
country-code mirrors). R is GPL'ed, and most of the CRAN packages are too.
One such CRAN package, GPL'ed and all, was written by someone in the
financial industry which happens to be one of the preferred habitats of
layers, and so it carries an extra rider. Could you good souls please opine
if the following debian/copyright is ok for inclusion in Debian main?
Please do CC me as I'm not subscribed here.
Thanks, Dirk
============ draft of debian/copyright for its / r-cran-its ================
This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-its package of its, a package for handling
irregularly spaced timeseries in GNU R. Its was written by Giles Heywood.
This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
The sources were downloaded from
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/
The package was renamed from its upstream name 'its' to 'r-cran-its'
to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R.
Its is copyright Giles Heywood and released under the GNU General Public
License (GPL), and well as additional disclaimer by Commerzbank Securities
(see below).
On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below:
Package: its
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2003/07/18
Title: Irregular Time Series
Author: Portfolio & Risk Advisory Group, Commerzbank Securities
Maintainer: Giles Heywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends: R (>= 1.7.0), methods, ts
Description: The its package contains an S4 class for handling
irregular time series
License: GPL, Commerzbank Securities disclaimer.
The LICENSE file included in the sources follows below [ but reformated to fit
78 columns ]. The important part appear to be the beginning as well as the 'no
warranty' disclaimer at the end; the middle part is mostly securities law
boilerplate not directly applicable to software.
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Commerzbank AG makes no representation or warranty, express or implied,
statutory or otherwise as to condition, quality, performance or fitness for
purpose as to the irregular time series software ("Software")and specifically
disclaims any such representation and warranty including, without limitation,
any warranty of satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose. By
using the Software, you agree to assume the entire risk of that use.
LIABILITY
In no circumstances will Commerzbank AG be liable for any loss or damage of
any kind whatsoever whether in contract, tort (including negligence and
breach of statutory duty), restitution or otherwise in connection with or
arising from:
(i) the supply of the Software; or
(ii) the use or inability to use the Software (including but not limited to
loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or a failure of the Software
to operate with any other software or programs).
Commerzbank AG will not be liable for loss of profits, goodwill, anticipated
earnings or savings or loss of use or value of any data or equipment or loss
of contracts or other indirect or consequential loss whether arising from
negligence, breach of contract or howsoever.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thu Oct 2 18:49:52 2003
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx
