Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-15 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:27:19PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: License and copyright are one and the same. GPL license relies on copyright law, just like almost any other open source license there is, be it BSD, Artistic or

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:41:08AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: Maybe taking derived code (e.g. including new code), one could write only the license of aggregate work (thus one later license), I think so. I agree it could be better to list them explicitly, but upstream doesn't want that.

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-10 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:27:19PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: License and copyright are one and the same. GPL license relies on copyright law, just like almost any other open source license there is, be it BSD, Artistic or LGPL. Without copyright, the license is meaningless. Without license,

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-09 Thread Adam Majer
Robert Millan wrote: And so on. * Copyright (C) 2009 Hubert Figuiere is simply false, Alright. So, I understand you mean option 1 (see my paragraph starting with The new file seems to be asserting... above). Unless there's a clear consensus in -legal that this is not a problem, I will

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 -

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
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 both of