Re: octave-plplot: intention to package
Ola Joao,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
>>>>> "JC" == Joao Cardoso <jcardoso@inescn.pt> writes:
JC> I know nothing about copyrights, so I include none in the
JC> sources. My intention is that plplot_octave could be available
JC> in a future release of Octave, if Octave's author wants to. If
JC> including it in a Debian release disallows my intention, than I
JC> would not approve it.
Absolutely, inclusion in the Debian distribution will _not_ prevent any
inclusion of the plplot_octave interface into a future release of
Octave.
One of my intentions in packaging it for Debian is to give more
visibility to your great software (as well as to PLplot itself), such
that development can be speeded up. A better plotting interface is
really needed for Octave at present.
JC> As I told before, my intention is to enable it to be used as
JC> Octave is, with a GNU General Public License (which I have never
JC> fully read :-)) . If you want to add/include in all modified
JC> sources or scripts the GNU licence header, I will be happy (if
JC> this is still possible after I have put the package
JC> un-intentionally in the public domain).
It is too much work to do that, and as it is getting colder and colder
(slink freeze is imminent) I just changed the copyright file to satisfy
your desire. I am attaching the modified copyright below.
Debian developers: do you think that this is acceptable?
JC> Anyway, I already have latter versions, but they are not
JC> packaged for public usage.
Great. They will appear in Debian 2.2 (or 3.0?).
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========= /usr/doc/octave-plplot/copyright ============================
This package was debianized by Rafael Laboissiere rafael@icp.inpg.fr on
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:20:19 +0200.
This package was built from a tarball sent by Joao Cardoso
<jcardoso@inesc.pt> to the octave-sources mailing list (see the announcement
in http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/mailing-lists/octave-sources/1998/5).
Copyright:
The files in the source distribution have no copyright notice, but by
explicit request from the author, the following terms apply:
Copyright (C) 1998 Joao Cardoso. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version. [In Debian systems, see file
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL.]
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
Many files under /usr/share/octave/site/m/PLplot have the following line:
## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
and were released under the GPL. They were modified by Joao Cardoso and are
assumed to be released under the same licencing terms.
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