Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Finney
"Anthony W. Youngman" writes: > Basically he should put there "(c) Hubert" and "licence GPLv3+". Small nit (and all in my layman's understanding): Copyright notices, when they were required at all (most recently in the UCC), were never valid with “(c) Person Name”. That is, “(c)” doesn't mean “c

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090408212528.ga19...@thorin>, Robert Millan writes [ Adding Hubert Figuiere (gnote upstream) to CC, note that he's probably not subscribed ] Hi Anthony, On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:20:44PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message <20090408194833.ga5...@thorin>, Robert Milla

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
[ Adding Hubert Figuiere (gnote upstream) to CC, note that he's probably not subscribed ] Hi Anthony, On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:20:44PM +0100, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <20090408194833.ga5...@thorin>, Robert Millan > writes >>> and a >>> clear violation of Tomboy's license. >

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090408194833.ga5...@thorin>, Robert Millan writes and a clear violation of Tomboy's license. Notice license and copyright statements are two separate issues. AFAIK LGPL doesn't explicitly require that a license notice is preserved mixing code with other licenses like the BSD lic

Re: Why is OpenSSL not in non-free?

2009-04-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* MJ Ray: > The linked common licence is the modified BSD licence AFAIK, so I > don't feel that either of those would be accurate. I've added the > unmodified BSD licence with its own entry, along the lines of the wiki > description. I'm pretty sure it's in debian. Yes, the DFSG originally refer

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:30:30PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > > > If there's a problem, we'll get it sorted out, but I need more specific > > info on your findings; the example you pasted shows a file with nor > > copyright statement neither license information (from tomboy) and one > > with bo

Re: Why is OpenSSL not in non-free?

2009-04-08 Thread MJ Ray
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:36:29PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > I'd happily update http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ but I can't > > see how it makes it sounds as if 4-clause BSD wouldn't meet DFSG. Can > > you clarify? [...] > Licenses currently found in Debian main include:

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 21:05 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi Jo, > > Nice to see your newly found interest in C++ packages (though, not > completely unexpected) :-) Nothing wrong with C++ in moderation. My last ITP was a C++ browser plugin. > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:26:18PM +0100, Jo Shields

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Jo, Nice to see your newly found interest in C++ packages (though, not completely unexpected) :-) On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 06:26:18PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > Please note that this project in its current form contains swathes of > major copyright violations and cannot be uploaded to Debian -