Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-10-10 Thread Florent Rougon
Hello again, [ Remainder: this thread is about a file whose copyright/licensing statement is of the form: # Copyright (C) 2002-2010, 2013, 2014 ... # Copyright (C) 2000 ... # # This program is in the public domain. It has been established by the mavens from this list th

Strange legal notice in AllJoyn (from Qualcomm)

2014-10-10 Thread Cleto Martín
Hello! I'm studying to start a package for AllJoyn[1], a network middleware created by Qualcomm which is now hosted by the Linux Foundation. In general terms, this middleware is licensed under the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) terms, which seems to be good in terms of Debian Policy. However,

Re: Strange legal notice in AllJoyn (from Qualcomm)

2014-10-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
INAL, etc On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:23:09PM +0100, Cleto Martín wrote: > Hello! > > I'm studying to start a package for AllJoyn[1], a network middleware > created by Qualcomm which is now hosted by the Linux Foundation. > > In general terms, this middleware is licensed under the Internet > Soft

Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-10-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 06:50:49PM +0200, Florent Rougon a écrit : > > [ Remainder: this thread is about a file whose copyright/licensing > statement is of the form: > > # Copyright (C) 2002-2010, 2013, 2014 ... > # Copyright (C) 2000 ... > # > # This program is in the pub

Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-10-10 Thread Ben Finney
Florent Rougon writes: > It has been established by the mavens from this list that the > copyright statements contradict the "public domain" assertion, and > that simply stating "This program is in the public domain" is not > enough to make it so in general. I've been a primary proponent