On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:08:15AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 11:14 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
The grandfathered licensing terms include this:
> The authors hereby grant permission [...], provided that
existing > copyright notices are retained in all copies and that
this notice > is included verbatim in any distributions.
We therefore need to involve upstream and request them to include
above licensing, as their granted license was violated when the
header was stripped, and they therefore cannot pass on a license
to us (or anyone else) for that file.
All of the code in that library, borrowed or not, is under the same
license: the Tcl/Tk license. Is it still necessary to include
multiple copies of the Tcl/Tk license as long as we have the
copyrights listed in debian/copyright?
Maybe if you can suggest an alternative interpretation of "provided
that existing copyright notices are retained in all copies".
I can only come up with one interpretation, which means the
licensing upstream passed to us is bogus, since they lost _their_
license!
I do see notice of copyright in debian/copyright with each line marked
Copyright: I know the proprietary software Cycling '74 Max/MSP uses
code from Pd, which is BSD licensed. They do include the line of
credit in their own copyright statement, but they don't include the
actual BSD license file that I could find. So I'm not the only one to
have that opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice
If e.g. IOhannes m. zmoelnig is mentioned due to Debian packaging,
I suggest to add a copyright (and licensing! they always go
together) statement in ebian/rules, and keep debian/copyright as a
reference file rather than containing unique info on its own.
You don't want to claim copyright for the Debian packaging?
Personally, I always consider my own packaging work either public
domain, or part of the copyright of the upstream software itself. I
see no benefit to adding copyright complexity.
Ok, I updated the copyright based on this thread, deleted
copyright_hints, and pushed my changes. I think that should sort out
the copyright issues. As far I am concerned, this ready for upload.
Agreed. I'm working on it now.
Excellent, thanks!
.hc
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