Bug#449475: Vegastrike copyright problems: fix waiting for upstream's expert
Hello, According to upstream, it should be reasonably easy to fix this problem by using a newer version of the code that does not have the copyright problems. What it needs is just some time from upstream's expert on the topic. Cheers, Vincent -- Vincent Fourmond, Debian Developer http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/ -- pretty boring signature, isn't it ? ___ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file
Francesco Poli wrote: Probably OK in non-free given that Debian is a non-profit organisation. Wait, wait: IIUC, we are talking about a work which is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2 or later as a whole, but includes code licensed under a non-profit-only license. The two licenses are incompatible, as you noticed, hence the Debian Project has no valid permission to redistribute the work, even in non-free. More precisely, in order to comply with Section 4 of LGPLv2, the Debian Project should distribute the whole work under the terms of the LGPL, but this is impossible without violating the UNC Chapel Hill license. Consequently, I would say that the work is legally undistributable (regardless of the archive section Debian chooses to distribute from). That is what I was afraid of. We'll have to play with the upstream of the package so that this code is not used anymore (there seem to be a replacement around). Many thanks, Vincent -- Vincent Fourmond, Debian Developer http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/ -- pretty boring signature, isn't it ? ___ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file
[please CC me and the bug for replies, thanks] Hello, The package vegastrike (in main) contains two files whose copyright header is reproduced integrally in this message. It seems to me that the copyright notices conflict, and effectively render the file not distributable, but I am not quite sure; if this file is effectively a derived work from the work copyrighted by the Universtity of North Carolina, it is not distributable. It all depends on the meaning of based on. What do you think ? What should be done ? Thanks Vincent /* Copyright (C) 1998,2000 by Written by Alex Pfaffe This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library 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 Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */ // The following classes are utility classes for the RAPID collision detection // algorithm. The code is based on the UNC implementation of the RAPID // algorithm: /*\ Copyright 1995 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and the following three paragraphs appear in all copies. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS ON AN AS IS BASIS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HAS NO OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS. The authors may be contacted via: US Mail: S. Gottschalk Department of Computer Science Sitterson Hall, CB #3175 University of N. Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 Phone: (919)962-1749 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \**/ ___ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
Bug#449475: Serious doubts about the distributability of a file
On Jan 7, 2008 1:38 PM, Vincent Fourmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the copyright notices conflict, and effectively render the file not distributable, but I am not quite sure; if this file is effectively a derived work from the work copyrighted by the Universtity of North Carolina, it is not distributable. It all depends on the meaning of based on. What do you think ? What should be done ? I agree that the notices are incompatible, but I think the problem is more fundamental. The big problem is in the licence terms for the UNC code: Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, This limitation to educational, research and non-profit purposes makes the UNC code non-free. So if any UNC code is included in the file in question, then this makes the file undistributable in main. Probably OK in non-free given that Debian is a non-profit organisation. John (TINLA) ___ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
Bug#449475:
This just tells me that it's dual-licensed. Shouldn't this be asked at debian-legal? ___ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
Bug#449475: src/cmd/collide/prapid.* cannot be distributed
Package: vegastrike Version: 0.4.3.debian-1 Severity: serious Hello, After looking up copyright notices in the various files in the vegastrike tarball, it appeared that the files src/cmd/collide/prapid.h and src/cmd/collide/prapid.cpp cannot be distributed. Indeed, the code is said to be Copyright (C) 1998 by Jorrit Tyberghein and licensed under the GPL, but it is said to be based on an implementation originally Copyright 1995 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and whose license only permits modification/distribution and so on 'for educational, research and non-profit purposes'. This is, to my knowledge, incompatible with the GPL. So these files cannot be distributed. Regards, Vincent -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash ___ Pkg-games-devel mailing list Pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-devel
