On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 14:56 +0000, Robin Cornelius wrote: > My main questions are :- > > 1) is it necessary to repeat the license text every time, for example :- > > Files: libopenjpeg/j2k.c > libopenjpeg/j2k.h > libopenjpeg/openjpeg.h > Copyright: © 2002-2007, Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, > Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium > © 2002-2007, Professor Benoit Macq > © 2001-2003, David Janssens > © 2002-2003, Yannick Verschueren > © 2003-2007, Francois-Olivier Devaux and Antonin Descampe > © 2005, Herve Drolon, FreeImage Team > © 2006-2007, Parvatha Elangovan > License: BSD-2 > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without ..... > ...... Full Text ...... > > Would it be allowable to just state "BSD-2" for each of the cases then > define the full text at one point in the file? >
In free text format, mentioning "see above" is OK. The structured format should allow mentioning large parts only once. > > > There are a couple of files that do NOT have copyright, these were > created by a US government contractor and therefor :- > > Copyright: It is the policy of NLM (U.S. National Library of Medicine) > (and U.S. government) to not assert copyright. > License: other > A non-exclusive copy of this code has been contributed to the Open JPEG > project. > Except for copyright, inclusion of the code within Open JPEG for > distribution and use > can be bound by the Open JPEG open-source license and disclaimer, > expressed elsewhere. > > Is this a problem at all, not having asserted copyright? > It is not OK to mention in debian/copyright that the software "can be bound" by a license "expressed elsewhere". > > Finally many files have the same set of authors and copyright years, but > then there is a file with an extra contributor here or there, should > each of these files be listed separately with its own list of copyright > holders? To me this seems the *correct* way to do things and each file > that does not fall under the Files: * catch all list should have its own > entry in the debian/copyright file. Or can i just add the extra > contributors to the initial Files: * Copyright: xxx yy zzz > List even though those extra contributors do not have copyright over all > the files included in that search, files have same license however. > (Seems incorrect to me) > This is much less of a problem if the license text does not need to be > repeated each time. > In free text format it is, in my opinion, OK to mention "the files in the directories ... are copyrighted by a combination of some of the following copyright holders: ... and are licensed under the terms of ...". > > Just wanted to check the *correct* way to do do things. That is obviously very good. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
