Re: RFS: apt-spy

[Stefano Canepa <sc@linux.it>]

Paul Wise  at "Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:02:52 +0800" wrote:
 PW> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Stefano Canepa wrote:

 >> After your previous email I contacted monit authors to solve the
 >> licensing problem. One of them replyed he has no problem if I use these
 >> three methods even releasing they code with BSD license as the rest of
 >> apt-spy. Do you think I need to wait for all three to reply? Do I need
 >> to include the message somewhere? And if yes where is it appropriate? In
 >> the README?

 PW> The copyright notice for util.c from monit is this:

 PW> Copyright (C) 2009 Tildeslash Ltd. All rights reserved.

 PW> Your permission therefore needs to come from official representatives
 PW> of "Tildeslash Ltd.", not from random folks who have contributed to
 PW> monit.

 PW> I would suggest to include the mail in the commit message where you
 PW> change the license in the git repository. Probably it is not needed in
 PW> the README file.

I have and email from Jan-Henrik Haukeland hauk@tildeslash.com, but it's
in a form that will  be not so clear if included in the headed of the
file, I'm asking for a clearer statement and to add the position in
Tildeslash Ltd of the person granting the reuse.

Thanks again

Bye
Stefano

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