plan copyright clarification
Awhile ago I asked about the copyright in plan and there was a slight
vagueness with the original. I have emailed the author and he replied that
he would change the actual copyright file inthe next release, but not
until then. Can I then incorporate part of this email note into
/usr/doc/copyright and upload it into the free part of debian? Cheers,
Colin.
-----------begin copyright
This package was debianized by Colin R. Telmer telmerco@debian.org
on Sat, 31 May 1997 11:09:23 -0400.
It was downloaded from
<ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/graphics/plan/plan-1.6.1.tar.gz>
Copyright:
plan is Copyrighted by Thomas Driemeyer, 1993-1996. License to copy,
publish, and distribute is granted to everyone provided that three
conditions are met:
- my name and email address, "Thomas Driemeyer <thomas@bitrot.in-
berlin.de>" must remain in the distribution and any documentation
that was not part of this distribution. In particular, my name
and address must be shown in the About popup.
- if you redistribute a modified version, the fact that the version
is modified must be stated in all places that my name is shown.
- this copyright notice must be included in your distribution.
If these conditions are met, you can do whatever you like. The
idea is that I would be pissed if someone else claimed he wrote the
thing, and I don't want bugs introduced by others attributed to me.
Make as much money with it as you can. Drop me a line, I am curious.
If you put plan on a CD, send me a free copy if your company policy
allows it.
There are no implied or expressed warranties for plan. I do not
claim it is good for anything whatsoever, and if you lose your
precious data or your dog dies this is entirely your problem.
Addendum:
The second last paragraph above is not clear and the upstream author
will replace it next release with the following:
>From thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de Thu Jun 5 14:10:17 1997
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 22:07:38 +0200 (MST)
From: Thomas Driemeyer <thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de>
To: Colin Telmer <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
Subject: Re: plan
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Colin Telmer wrote:
> This would seem to require any CD-makers to send the author a free
> copy if their company policy does not explicitly forbid it. That
> would put CD-makers in some amount of risk if they forget to send the
> "complementary" CD, thus it is non-free.
>
> If the statement was intended to only mean "if you want to do it",
> it's free, but the statement needs to be clarified.
It seems I don't have the mind of a lawyer. (Is this good or bad?) SuSE
is a company that puts together Linux distributions, and they send free
CDs to their contributors. I liked the concept and wanted to encourage
it in the README. It seems that the wording is more strict than intended.
Of course I didn't intend to put anyone at risk, I _want_ this to appear
on as many CDs as possible. So, since I don't want to re-release just
to change the README, how about this clarification:
If you put plan on a CD, send me a free copy if your company policy
allows it and you want to. (Not obligatory, I just collect trophies.)
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School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6
(613)545-6000x4219 telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca
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