Jacob Adams writes ("Re: sct public domain"):
> On 06/24/2016 04:00 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Jacob Adams writes ("sct public domain"):
> >> Firstly, the license of sct consists of one line:
> >> /* public domain, do as you wish
> >
> > Seems like a clear enough intent to dedicate to the public domain,
> > along with a permission to deal freely. So yes.
>
> Ok that makes sense. Wasn't sure if public domain was more complicated
> but clearly not.
"Public domain" is very complicated. It means different things in
different places :-(. But happily here the authors hve not only said
public domain, but also given a clear separate permission. So this is
fine.
> >> Secondly, sct.c contains these lines:
...
> > You could always ask the relevant redshift copyrightholder and see
> > what they think.
>
> I emailed Ingo Thies (who is credited with creating the table in
> redshift) and he said that the table was created "by following
> mathematical rules of color integration and conversion from the CIE 1931
> color space to sRGB" and doubted it was copyrightable at all. He also
> said he would have no problem releasing it to the public domain even if
> it was copyrightable.
Great. You might want to c&p that email into debian/copyright
(assuming Ingo Thies is happy with that). That's helpful so we have a
record in case anyone should complain.
> It doesn't seem like a conversion like that is copyrightable though. Do
> I still credit him or is this definitely not copyrightable?
We should credit people who have contributed, even if copyright law
doesn't ncecessarily require it. So: I would state the facts, as you
do here.
Regards,
Ian.
