Bug#1017588: Your autotools copyright question

2022-08-23 Thread Bastian Germann
Copyright info from these two files is missing: libdrgn/arch_ppc64.c libdrgn/kdump.c

Bug#1017588: Your autotools copyright question

2022-08-19 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:13:00AM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > Am 19.08.22 um 03:41 schrieb Michel Alexandre Salim: > > Quick question (applies to drgn, not libkdumpfile) - if the tarball > > contains some m4 rules copied verbatim from autotools, do I have to list > > them in d/copyright? > >

Bug#1017588: Your autotools copyright question

2022-08-19 Thread Bastian Germann
Am 19.08.22 um 03:41 schrieb Michel Alexandre Salim: Quick question (applies to drgn, not libkdumpfile) - if the tarball contains some m4 rules copied verbatim from autotools, do I have to list them in d/copyright? The answer is tricky: Per Debian Policy you have to include every license that

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:26:55PM -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : Riku Voipio wrote: I think the short term solution to this dilemma is to compile a list of attributions needed to be included in advertizment material. Also a list should be compiled attributions needed n documentation (such as

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-09 Thread Riku Voipio
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:34:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I think that it is a bit frivolous to distribute software with advertisment clause in main and not properly warning the redistributors, I think the short term solution to this dilemma is to compile a list of attributions needed to

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Riku Voipio wrote: I think the short term solution to this dilemma is to compile a list of attributions needed to be included in advertizment material. Also a list should be compiled attributions needed n documentation (such as libjpeg's). Obviously most distributors/boob writers will not

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:27:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Am I missing something? This ? http://web.archive.org/web/19990210065944/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license

Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Jean Parpaillon
Hi, I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the following statements: -- 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Innovative Computing Laboratories.

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jean! You wrote: I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the following statements: -- 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Cyril Brulebois said: On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed at the University of

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Stefan Potyra
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 16:30 schrieb Jean Parpaillon: Hi, I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the following statements: -- 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 06/02/2008, Sebastian Harl wrote: Just to make this clear […] Yep, thank you (all) for clarifying that, sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpyGch4L5nAE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:46:23PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 06/02/2008, Jean Parpaillon wrote: 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed at the

Re: Copyright question

2008-02-06 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Stefan Potyra wrote: Hi, Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 16:30 schrieb Jean Parpaillon: Hi, I intend to package HPL benchmarks. Copyright file contains the following statements: -- 1. Redistributions of source code must

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:30:01PM +0100, Jean Parpaillon a écrit : 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This example is maybe a bit artificial, but the point is that with such licences in main, redistributors who use advertisement should in theory read all the copyright files to check who to acknowledge. For this reason, I wouldn't recommend to include

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:44:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This example is maybe a bit artificial, but the point is that with such licences in main, redistributors who use advertisement should in theory read all the copyright files to check

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that it is a bit frivolous to distribute software with advertisment clause in main and not properly warning the redistributors, who are the most likely persons to infringe the clause. We should remeber that for other aspects of licencing and

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's horribly credible that including software covered by the 4-clause BSD license in Debian violates the principle of least surprise when we specifically list it as one of our acceptable licenses in the DFSG. The 4-clause BSD license is

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 4-clause BSD license is not one that we list as an acceptable license. DFSG URL:http://www.debian.org/social_contract §10: 10. Example Licenses The GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses are examples of licenses that we consider free.

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:27:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : Am I missing something? This ? http://web.archive.org/web/19990210065944/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license http://web.archive.org/web/20001205083200/http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

copyright question

2007-11-03 Thread David Arroyo
hello! I'm writing my first debian package and I've a question: what copyright must I write in the copyright debian/copyright? the package copyright or the software to be packaged copyright? thanks! -- David Arroyo Menéndez http://www.davidam.com

Re: copyright question

2007-11-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
David Arroyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04/11/2007): the package copyright or the software to be packaged copyright? The software (and its data/whatever)'s license in extenso (and all additional copyright holders, license terms, etc.), and usually a quick note about the packaging itself. Cheers, --

Re: copyright question

2007-11-03 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Cyril, * Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-04 03:24]: David Arroyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04/11/2007): the package copyright or the software to be packaged copyright? The software (and its data/whatever)'s license in extenso (and all additional copyright holders, license terms,

Re: copyright question

2007-11-03 Thread David Arroyo
Thanks! 2007/11/4, Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Cyril, * Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-04 03:24]: David Arroyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04/11/2007): the package copyright or the software to be packaged copyright? The software (and its data/whatever)'s license in extenso

Re: another: copyright question

1999-07-05 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. Thank you for your advice. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Taketoshi Sano wrote: I can't find no written permission of use, modify, distribute. But there are many archives, including HP-UX sites and DEC VMS sites which provides this xacursor

Re: another: copyright question

1999-07-04 Thread David Coe
Hmmm, a fourth year student at u.waterloo in 1993 is probably somewhere else long since then. I'm not an official mentor (not even an official developer, yet), so these are just my thoughts... Maybe you can contact someone currently at u waterloo (the main web page links to a long list of web

Re: another: copyright question

1999-07-03 Thread Richard Braakman
Taketoshi Sano wrote: I can't find no written permission of use, modify, distribute. But there are many archives, including HP-UX sites and DEC VMS sites which provides this xacursor as a public domain. RedHat (RPM) package for libc5 is also provided as contrib. I wish to know whether I

Re: copyright question

1999-06-12 Thread Chris Leishman
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 09:54:39PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: snip %%% Redistribution and use with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. One of the following (1-a,1-b,1-c) 1-a. Source distribution have all information in the

Re: copyright question

1999-06-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Taketoshi Sano proclaimed: So, I proposed the author to change the license as following, and He agrees to this change now. %%% Redistribution and use with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. One of the following (1-a,1-b,1-c)

Re: copyright question

1999-06-09 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 09:09:51PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: Hi. Thank you for your opinion. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] James Mastros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: clearly the intent of the author. He might be better served by simply going GPL; he has most of the gist there already.