<posted & mailed> Andrew Pollock wrote:
> [[ Please CC me on all correspondence, I'm not subscribed ]] > > Hi, > > I've filed an ITP (WNPP #252999) on some software that is licensed under > the GPL. > > The source does not contain anything like a COPYING or LICENSE file or > anything where the author asserts copyright over the work, or states that > it's licensed under the GPL (but Freshmeat says it is) and there is a copy > of the GPL included in the source tarball, in a file called GPL. ecncheck/firedns/README contains a copyright assertion and licensing statement, albeit a sloppy one. That presumably applies only to the firedns subdir, though. There's a similar notice in ecncheck/firestring/README. The rest of ecncheck, unfortunately, has no such notice. > I've emailed the author and asked if he could add such assertions to a > subsequent release of the software, but to date I have not received a > reply. > > What should I do at this point? Abort packaging the software? Until you can get a proper copyright/licensing statement from the author, yeah. The fact that *parts* of it are licensed by him really means that he ought to be willing to license the rest of it.... > Cobble > together a debian/copyright file from non-existent information and upload? > > regards > > Andrew -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
