On 12.06.2016 15:23, Tobias wrote: > Dear Java packagers, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "stegosuite". Hi Tobias, Thanks for your update. I had to update the BSD-2-clause license because they mention that parts of their code was taken from the JPEG group. In this case we must quote both licenses. Though there is probably even more work. First of all, it's great that you use comments to document external code but I would strongly recommend to properly document these parts of your software. These comment are rather easy to miss. In general there are several approaches but the most popular are file-scope license information or centralizing license information. [1] It is very easy to parse software projects that add license headers to each and every file. In Debian we have tools like licensecheck or cme which can support maintainers in this work. The centralized approach isn't bad either. You could list all licenses in one file or, since we are almost done, just use debian/copyright in your own project which would make life for other people easier. I have found the following comments in your code: Taken from https://github.com/StanfordHCI/c3/blob/master/java/src/edu/stanford https://github.com/StanfordHCI/c3/blob/master/LICENSE The license is missing in debian/copyright. adapted from Sharma et al's MATLAB implementation at // http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~gsharma/ciede2000/ I have no idea what has been adapted and if it is copyrightable. same here: some code in this class taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/992413/4862922 The license for stackoverflow is CC-BY-SA 3.0 Not every piece of code is copyrightable, so there might be a chance that there is no action required from our side. In any case I suggest to add a Comment: section to your main Files: * paragraph. It helps if you clarify these comments with a few words. If those parts are copyrightable, please add the license to debian/copyright. Regards, Markus [1] https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html
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