Re: [Fwd: Intent to package: pm3]
At 02:37 AM 8/1/99 -0400, Mike Goldman wrote:
>David Starner wrote:
>
>> At 11:15 PM 7/31/99 -0400, Mike Goldman wrote:
>> >PM3: Polytechnique Montreal Modula-3
>>
>> >The only open question, which I have been discussing on debian-legal, is
>> >whether this package needs to go into non-free or whether it can go into
>> >main. The relevant part of the license which causes some concern is:
>> [chunk snipped]
>> >Presently, I'm inclined to release into main, unless anyone strongly
>> >objects.
>>
>> This has come up before. See
>> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-legal-9901/msg00002.html . In
>> summary, there are copyrights buried in the code that are "all rights
>> reserved", i.e. non-free to the max.
>
>I looked up this thread, and disagree with your summary. The only "all
>rights reserved" disclaimer was in a file by Digital, which pointed the
>reader to the file COPYRIGHT for more information, which, in turn, is
>precisely the license which I have previously posted here and which has only
>the qualification noted. There doesn't appear to be any other relevant code
>which is covered under a more restrictive license than this.
Stuart Lamble wrote:
>The solver is Copyright (C) 1992, Xerox Corporation.
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>This is, literally, the whole copyright statement (as far as I can tell)
>for this particular file.
>
>libs/m3core/src/win32/WinVer.i3 is also worrying:
[snip]
>* Copyright (c) 1992, Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved
*
The second file would have to be left out of the source file, which
wouldn't be that big a deal. But the first is "all rights reserved" even if
it doesn't say so (under copyright law.) If the solver is non-essencial,
then it can be left out of the source file, but it is a concern.
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org (alternately dvdeug@hotmail.com)
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has been taken. Thus, I write." - Tragic Poet
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