Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:50:58PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:23:30 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > It looks like Arai-san jca02266@nifty.ns.jp seems to be most active.
> > http://ns103.net/~arai is his URL
> >
> > He has new autoconf version.
> >
> > It looks to me people are treating almost like public domain as long as
> > New sources are available to general public.
Here I meant "most Japanese non-commercial entity" by "people". Debian
can not treat it as PD with current license for sure.
> It's worth considering to include/replace with his patch.
> It includes some more features. My little concern is he does not
> state any copyright issues clearly. I try to contact to him.
My understanding is what ever Arai-san did is copyright of him. Let's
try to let him license his portion with BSD without AD clause (i.e.
MIT-X) license.
Problem is original software writers who wrote core parts have to agree
to a new DSFG compliant license. Otherwise this will not go into MAIN.
I think most of them will agree either GPL or X for their part of
contribution if we contact them properly. Here is my research result
for the original copyright holders.
Upstream authors, maintainers:
LHarc 0.01-1.00: Yooichi Tagawa (LHa code taken from here, 1988-1989)
Nikkei-mix ID: y.tagawa (Now this is defunct BBS, Licensing term
in manual page come from his licence for lharc)
His new web page seems to be www2s.biglibe.ne.jp/~yex/
yooedit2001@yahoo.co.jp is the contact e-mail address for another
software. Page updated at least July/2001
LHa 0.01-1.00: Masaru Oki (LHa original author, 1991-1992)
Suse.com list e-mail: oki@wbg.telcom.oki.co.jp
LHa 1.10-1.14: Nobutaka Watazaki (Last official release? 1993-1995)
No e-mail available (Any idea?)
Lha 1.14a-1.14e: Tsugio Okamoto <tsugio@muc.biglobe.ne.jp> (1996-2000)
LHa 1.15 Recent one on NET
LHA autoconf version: Arai-san <jca02266@nifty.ns.jp> (2002)
All these people has some claim on copyright statement on source files.
lharc.c provides a good summary. (Please use that for README.Debian)
Problem is there is no e-mail available for the first 3 primary authors.
They are asking to be contacted by e-mail but there is no mention.
Anyway, getting license corrected for old softwares is very difficult.
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Note: By the way, patch with name mentioned are:
0.01-1.00
ishikawa@gaia.cow.melco.CO.JP (rename.c -> utils.c)
Takayuki Honma (time related stuff, lhadd.c)
Kurashima@University of Tokyo (EUC)
Youchan@nikkei-mix (Minix patch)
These people's names except ishikawa do not exist in current source,
also lhadd.c which seems to be affected are marked as "source all
changed" by Watazaki. I would call them trivial contribution and do not
thin critical for copyright issue. Also in Makefile, there is mention on
# for OSK
# V1.08 1990.10.09 Sakura Tomozou
# V2.00 + lzhuf4/5 1990.10.26
but this is porting only and should not concern Debian.
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