Ola Joao, Thanks for your prompt reply.
>>>>> "JC" == Joao Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> I know nothing about copyrights, so I include none in the JC> sources. My intention is that plplot_octave could be available JC> in a future release of Octave, if Octave's author wants to. If JC> including it in a Debian release disallows my intention, than I JC> would not approve it. Absolutely, inclusion in the Debian distribution will _not_ prevent any inclusion of the plplot_octave interface into a future release of Octave. One of my intentions in packaging it for Debian is to give more visibility to your great software (as well as to PLplot itself), such that development can be speeded up. A better plotting interface is really needed for Octave at present. JC> As I told before, my intention is to enable it to be used as JC> Octave is, with a GNU General Public License (which I have never JC> fully read :-)) . If you want to add/include in all modified JC> sources or scripts the GNU licence header, I will be happy (if JC> this is still possible after I have put the package JC> un-intentionally in the public domain). It is too much work to do that, and as it is getting colder and colder (slink freeze is imminent) I just changed the copyright file to satisfy your desire. I am attaching the modified copyright below. Debian developers: do you think that this is acceptable? JC> Anyway, I already have latter versions, but they are not JC> packaged for public usage. Great. They will appear in Debian 2.2 (or 3.0?). -- Rafael Laboissiere Institut de la Communication Parlee | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UPRESS A CNRS 5009 / INPG | Voice: +33 4.76.57.48.49 46, av. Felix Viallet | Fax: +33 4.76.57.47.10 F-38031 Grenoble CEDEX 1 France | URL: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/~rafael ========= /usr/doc/octave-plplot/copyright ============================ This package was debianized by Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:20:19 +0200. This package was built from a tarball sent by Joao Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to the octave-sources mailing list (see the announcement in http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/octave-sources/1998/5). Copyright: The files in the source distribution have no copyright notice, but by explicit request from the author, the following terms apply: Copyright (C) 1998 Joao Cardoso. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. [In Debian systems, see file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.] This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Many files under /usr/share/octave/site/m/PLplot have the following line: ## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton and were released under the GPL. They were modified by Joao Cardoso and are assumed to be released under the same licencing terms.