THANK you! On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:20:55PM +0000, Fortune, Steven (Steven) wrote: > Hi Florian: > The Voronoi package will include the license, attached. > --Steve Fortune > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Schlichting [mailto:fschl...@zedat.fu-berlin.de] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 5:11 PM > To: Fortune, Steven (Steven) > Cc: 689...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Voronoi license question > > Hi, > > I'm writing to you as the original author of Voronoi. We from the Debian > Perl Team would like to package a Perl module, Math::Geometry::Voronoi > (http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/Math-Geometry-Voronoi-1.3/lib/Math/Geometry/Voronoi.pm), > for Debian. The module is basically a wrapper around Derek Bradley's > improved version of your C implementation. > > It seems your Voronoi code does not come with any kind of license > statement, a fact that's also noted at the above mentioned URL. > Copyright/license information is needed in order for Debian (and others) > to be able to legally distribute the software. > > Could you please give us details on the following points (replying to > this email including the bug addess I've cc'd is fine): > > * years of copyright of your Voronoi code > * copyright holders' names and email addesses (if you're not the > copyright holder yourself) > * the license under which Voronoi can be redistributed and modified > > I apologize in advance for this request, as I understand that the last > thing most authors want to deal with is legal administrivia like this. > I'm not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that both copyright and > licensing information is vital for the continued success of open source > software. Copyright is what allows you to assert a license, and a > license is what gives others the rights to use and re-distribute your > software. A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" > by Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ > > Thank you, and sorry for the noise. > Florian
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