FYI, here is the interpretation of the license by the upstream author. I
asked about it back when I did the initial release, and no issue was
raised by the FTP team.
https://github.com/rjw57/dtcwt/issues/109
It would be nice to have this matter cleared once for all, as I don't
want to have to justify my work on this package every time a different
sponsor comes in.
Cheers,
Ghis
On 16/09/17 12:32, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
The copyright you quoted applies to the code from the original
implementation in MATLAB.
This code is a complete rewrite in Python, so the original copyright
should not apply. Not sure why this file is provided since the two code
bases are different.
Anyway I am open to hear from a second opinion from d-legal.
Ghis
Le 16 sept. 2017 11:20, "Herbert Fortes" <terb...@gmail.com
<mailto:terb...@gmail.com>> a écrit :
Hi Ghislain Vaillant,
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "python-dtcwt"
>
> * Package name : python-dtcwt
> Version : 0.12.0-1
> Upstream Author : Rich Wareham <rich.git...@richwareham.com
<mailto:rich.git...@richwareham.com>>
> * URL : https://github.com/rjw57/dtcwt
> * License : BSD
> Section : science
>
Cc: debian-legal
python-dtcwt is in Debian since 2015, but ORIGINAL_README.txt[0]
file is a bit problematic. I need someone to do a second check on
copyright.
[0] -
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/python-dtcwt.git/tree/ORIGINAL_README.txt
<https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/python-dtcwt.git/tree/ORIGINAL_README.txt>
It is said:
"This code is copyright and is supplied free of charge for research
purposes only. In return for supplying the code, all I ask is that, if
you use the algorithms, you give due reference to this work in any
papers that you write and that you let me know if you find any good
applications for the DT CWT. If the applications are good, I would be
very interested in collaboration. I accept no liability arising from use
of these algorithms."
- ... free of charge for research only ...
- ... all I ask is ... let me know if you find any good ...
The package is BSD, but COPYING.txt file says:
"This licence applies to any parts of this library which are novel
in comparison
to the original DTCWT MATLAB toolbox written by Nick Kingsbury and Cian
Shaffrey. See the ORIGINAL_README.txt file for details on any further
restrictions of use."
It does not look to be in "main" to me.
Regards,
Herbert
