Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Hakan Ardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have any of you tried to contact the upstream athor James Ashton? > Otherwise I will. I do have a uptodate address to him that I digged > up over another copyrigh issue last year. (That reply of his in the > copyrigh file). Please do. Thanks, --

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-20 Thread Hakan Ardo
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > | * Permission is given to distribute these sources, as long as the > | * copyright messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged. > | * > | * No responsibility is taken for any errors on inaccuracies inherent >

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-19 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However I don't think you can copyright something you created in > 1889 :) If you can manage to live 43 years after creating it, you still can. -- Henning Makholm "However, the fact that the utterance by E

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-19 Thread Brian Russo
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 07:05:04PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > >> Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > | * Written 11th November 1889. > > However I don't think you can copyright something you created in > > 1889 :) > Ah, that explains it! It's on the public domain now. I re

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | * Written 11th November 1889. > However I don't think you can copyright something you created in > 1889 :) Ah, that explains it! It's on the public domain now. I reckon this was a great hacker, writing a program for a language, compiler an

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems obvious to me. Is there some reason you have for reading it > another way? [1 ysabell:~] grep-available -s Package,Filename -P libcompface Package: libcompfaceg1 Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcompfaceg1_1989.11.11-17.4.

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-18 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > | * Compface - 48x48x1 image compression. > | * > | * Copyright (c) James Ashton - Sydney University - June 1990. > | * > | * Written 11th November 1889. > | * > | * Permission is given to distribute these sources, as

Re: libcompface's license

2001-02-18 Thread Brian Russo
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:02:17AM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Furthermore, libcompface's source carry this: > > | * Compface - 48x48x1 image compression. > | * > | * Copyright (c) James Ashton - Sydney University - June 1990. > | * > | * Written 11th November 1889. > | * > | *

libcompface's license

2001-02-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, in a mail exchange with one of my applicants, he asked me about the license of libcompface. Basically, from libcompface's readme, it's this: | Compface - 48x48x1 image compression and decompression | Copyright (c) James Ashton 1990. | Written 89/11/11 | | Feel free to distribute thi