Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-08 Thread Walter Landry
Colin Turner wrote: > Hi All, > > I hope you can help and advise on this issue. I am packaging a web > application for Debian, I am also the principal upstream author. The > code is generally GPL v2 PHP. Over the years the project inherited, from > a side project, a small fragment of Javascript t

smssend - GPLv2 without SSL exception - What to ask to upstream ?

2009-02-08 Thread Didier Raboud
Hi debian-legal, smssend was removed from Debian due to licensing issues (#399685 and #487523). As far as I understand it, the problem is/was the following : * the code efectively links to OpenSSL (through skyutils2) * its licence is GPLv2+ _without_ OpenSSL exception * the upstream author was u

Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment

2009-02-08 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not knowing the > code to write code doing this for you and use that code. Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the code; the new code is a derivative work of the des