Follow-up Comment #25, task #16596 (group administration): [comment #24 comment #24:] ... >> The GNU Project and Savannah use the conventions established in the US, as >> explained in our guidelines. > > Some of the third-party files are missing the "(C)" sign, or it is written as > "(c)", but I hope it won't be a problem, because all these copyright notices > do include the word "Copyright".
Quite right. The "C-in-circle" is optional and acceptable in any reasonable
form.
> There are also the license files in external libraries subdirectories, which
> are probably ok, but if you think any of them are unnecessary, please let me
> know, so I can remove them from the tarball.
I don't think these license files need removing.
> In particular, I have a bit of a doubt about cryptopp/License.txt. Not sure
> what purpose the "Boost" license text serves with a collection of public
> domain files; our tarball does not even include the whole crypto++ collection
> any more.
As far as I understand, they claim the "Boost" license for the collection as
such. I can't tell whether such claims are enforcible, but it's out of our
scope, it's up to the court to decide.
(I'll further use the privately submitted simphone-src-0.9.3-a9.tar.gz.)
Now, simcore/aria.c says, "This file is *based* on public domain code from..."
(the emphasis is mine); however, it says little about its legal status. By
the nature of the public domain, works based on it may have any distribution
terms.
Likewise, cryptopp/skipjack.cpp.
Then, please note that Savannah is GNU Project's software forge. Therefore,
we require that people [//www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html give our work due
credit] when hosting their packages here; in particular, they should
[//www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html call the operating system GNU/Linux
rather than just "Linux"].
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