Re: Legal issues with haskell-unix-time
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> There is 'cbits/conv.c' in 'haskell-unix-time' source package, which
> is probably is of same copyright, as haskell code (BSD-3-clause),
> but there is part of it, that is explicitly marked as all-rights-reserved.
> No email is provided. This troublesome part is only for portability on
> Solaris, and is not used on GNU/Linux systems.
I would suggest sending upstream a patch that copies the version from
one of the BSDs, which would probably be BSD licensed, or the version
from glibc.
> What is the best way to deal with situation? I know, there is Files-Excludes:
> clause in debian/copyright, but what to do with part of file?
You could exclude the whole file and add a copy without the bad part
via a patch.
> For your convenience, offending file is attached, but you probably
> interested in whole package.
Now the Debian mailing list archives are illegally distributing the code.
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