On Saturday, February 1, 2025 8:46:23 AM MST Ahmad Khalifa wrote: > Control: tags -1 -moreinfo Clarify license issues > > On 01/02/2025 08:58, Phil Wyett wrote: > > 3. Licenses [4]: Issue, possible false positive, needs review[...]> > > d/copyright | licensecheck > > > > LGPL-2+ | Zlib > > bootstrap/inc/allegro5/allegro_acodec.bi > > [...] > > > LGPL-2+ | Zlib inc/allegro5/allegro_acodec.bi > > [...] > > > Hi Phil, > > The inc directory, available in two locations, contains the headers > written by the FreeBASIC team where they quote the original header's > license. > > They would contain something like this: > > '' FreeBASIC binding for allegro-5.0.11 > > '' > > '' based on the C header files: > > '' Copyright (c) 2004-2011 the Allegro 5 Development Team > > [...] > > > '' translated to FreeBASIC by: > > '' FreeBASIC development team > > For all those files, I believe the copyright holder is the author of the > FB file, not the original header.
The copyright holder is both. Anytime you have an original file that is then translated by someone else, the resulting copyright of the translated file is both parties (unless one or both of the parties have assigned their copyright to someone else, which would generally be spelled out somewhere in the documentation). -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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