Sam, I just talked to Jeff on the telephone. The email is from him. He does wish to release the code under a BSD license.
I have included in the Cc list of this message Jeff, the maintainers of the upstream ax25-apps, ax25-tools, and libax25 (Ralf and Thomas). I would expect an email from Jeff (reply all) stating his intention that the code he contributed to ripdump.c in 4/1993 be released under a BSD license should be sufficient. It would be good if the email were signed by a gpg or pgp key owned by Jeff if possible. If something else needs to be done, someone else needs to let Jeff know. I want to thank Jeff again for agreeing to release the code under a license that allows it to remain in the main Debian free software repository. Pat On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 01:37:35PM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:37:35 +0100 > From: Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> > Subject: Re: Bug#630893: ax25-apps: Should be removed from main > To: Patrick Ouellette <poue...@debian.org> > CC: Sebastian Muszynski <ba...@linkt.de> > > Patrick Ouellette wrote: > >We are working on a resolution to the issue. > > Hi Patrick, > > Have you been in contact with Jeff White? I believe Sebastian didn't > get a response with his attempt in June 2011. > > I was contacted by a Jeff White, saying he wants to re-release under > BSD license (see attachment). I don't know if this is the actual > copyright holder's email address. There's a chance this could be > some dude trying to be funny. > > I don't know what you're working on with respect to this bug, so I > thought I'd consult you on how to proceed further. Any suggestions? > I thought to reply with the 3-clause BSD license, asking him to > agree to it for ripdump.c and CC both bugs, but that wouldn't verify > his identity. > > Regards, > Sam Geeraerts > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:05:05 -0500 > From: Jeff White <jwh...@white.nu> > Subject: RIP Dump license > To: sam...@elmundolibre.be > > I am N0POY. I saw on a search engine you were looking for a license > release on the code I wrote a long long time ago. How can I re-release the > code with a BSD license? > > -- > Jeff White > jwh...@white.nu -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. > Patrick Ouellette | If you have men who will exclude any of God's < > pat(at)flying-gecko.net | creatures from the shelter of compassion and < > Amateur Radio: NE4PO | pity, you will have men who will deal likewise < > | with their fellow men. -- Francis of Assisi < `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org