Hi Kapil, > I looked at your packaging at: > http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~hesso/deb/nvi_1.81.6-3.dsc > > I agree that the copyright situation is a bit complex. > > This is all a bit painful but I am sure that we will all thank you for > this effort. I too will try to help by producing my version of > debian/copyright for this package. I've uploaded an updated package to the above URL and also uploaded the new copyright file separately to http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~hesso/deb/nvi.copyright Short explanation: * All files that refer to LICENSE instead of including an own license statement are covered by BSD-3 and pose no problem. * The regex/ subdirectory is covered by regex/COPYRIGHT. Original author seems to be Henry Spencer, whose license text I have included as-is. Subsequent modifications are by UCB and therefore under BSD-3. * The clib/ subdirectory has BSD-4 license texts, but the only copyright holder is UCB, so due to their retroactive removal of the ad-clause I believe those to be equivalent to BSD-3. * dist/ltmain.sh is FSF code under GPL-2+. Regards, Jan
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