Dear Jan, On Sun, 06 Jul 2008, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote: > I've uploaded an updated package to the above URL and also uploaded the new > copyright file separately to > > http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~hesso/deb/nvi.copyright > > Short explanation: > * All files that refer to LICENSE instead of including an own license > statement are covered by BSD-3 and pose no problem. > > * The regex/ subdirectory is covered by regex/COPYRIGHT. Original author > seems to be Henry Spencer, whose license text I have included as-is. > Subsequent modifications are by UCB and therefore under BSD-3. > > * The clib/ subdirectory has BSD-4 license texts, but the only copyright > holder is UCB, so due to their retroactive removal of the ad-clause I > believe those to be equivalent to BSD-3. > > * dist/ltmain.sh is FSF code under GPL-2+.
This is more or less what I thought as well. Some points:
a. dist/ltmain.sh is a generated file and so I think it need not
be described in debian/copyright separately. That file says:
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
b. While I concur with you on the clib/ directory, I think it
would be good if we get a second opinion (perhaps Joerg's?) from
debian-mentors. Alternatively/additionally, the statement you made
above should probably be made in debian/copyright so that it is clear
on what basis we are drawing our conclusions. This is because the
files explicitly contain the BSD-4 clause license.
c. The debian/copyright file in the URL above makes no mention of the
debian packaging. That is copyrighted by the maintainer(s) and a
license has to be specified.
Regards,
Kapil.
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