Re: No Copyright on a source
> I got a support program from CTAN and debianized it for personnal use. I
> would like to upload it but I got no COPYRIGHT licence on it. Only the author
> name are wrote (Terry Brown if someone know him) and no e-mail address. Can
> I go forward and put it in Contrib or Not-Free or this is impossible.
Nope, out of luck. From the Debian policy manual:
[...]
Note that under international copyright law[3] no distribution or
modification of a work is allowed without an explicit notice saying so.
Therefore a program without a copyright notice is copyrighted and you
may
not do anything to it without risking being sued! Likewise if a program
has a copyright notice but no statement saying what is permitted then
nothing is permitted.
The policy manual suggests to ask the author, but this is a bit difficult
in
your case.
PS: I've seen unclearly copyrightsed material on CTAN too, which is really
a pity. The LaTeX3 copyright isn't the best either.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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> people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the
> PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
> - Bill Gates, interviewed by the L.A. Times, 22 nov. 96 -
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
?!
David
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