Re: netlib templates copyrights

[Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>]

I can try.  There are 10 authors listed without email addresses, and
the code dates back to the 90s, but I am sure some of them are still
alive.
I will search for email addresses and try to make contact, but in the
expectation that it is difficult, I was wondering if there was any
netlib-specific experience with this kind of thing on Debian Science.
I will also ask on Debian Legal in the case that I get no reply.

thanks,
Steve


On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Anton Gladky <gladk@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> is it possible to contact the authors/copyright holders of those files?
>
> Regards
>
> Anton
>
>
> 2018-04-05 18:02 GMT+02:00 Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>:
>> Hello science team,
>>
>> The software I am packaging embeds dftemplates and dctemplates from netlib:
>>
>> http://www.netlib.org/templates/index.html
>>
>> It is clear from the context that this is code to accompany a book and
>> intended to be used by the readers.  However, I cannot find an
>> explicit copyright, either on the site or in the book.  I think it is
>> public domain but I do not see this written anywhere.  I think this is
>> possibly a common issue with netlib code, how can I proceed?  Is it
>> safe to put Public-Domain in debian/copyright?
>>
>> regards,
>> Steve
>>