again: blackened copyright
Hi,
Last week, I posted the message below to debian-legal. Didn't get
any response, however. Am I missing something really obvious? If
so, could someone please bang me on my head for it?
Am I just stuck, with this upstream maintainer not responding? Is
there no other way than to contact the maintainer, to get around the
copyright issue?
Hope somebody can give me some hint on this.
Bye,
Joost van Baal
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----- Forwarded message from Joost van Baal <joostvb@xs4all.nl> -----
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 17:30:16 +0200
From: Joost van Baal <joostvb@xs4all.nl>
To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: blackened copyright
Message-ID: <20000729173015.U11913@gelfand.mdcc.cx>
Hi,
I'd like to package blackened (an ircII based irc client,
http://www.blackened.com/blackened) for Debian. However, the current
blackened tar ball still caries the old ircII copyright statement, which
says
"
IRC II is copyright (c) 1990 by Michael Sandrof. You have the
right to copy, compile, and maintain this software. You also
have the right to make modifcations to this code for local use
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
only.
^^^^
"
I know David Welton spoke to the ircII coders about this, which
resulted in a less strict license.
(http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-publicity-9806/msg00006.html)
I saw that e.g. bitchx, another ircII based client, carries this new
license now.
Should blackened be released under this new license? What is the position
of the blackened maintainer, Timothy Jensen, in this? Does this make
the blackened code free, in the Debian Software Guidelines sence? Does
it matter the old copyright statement still gets distributed with the
blackened code?
I'd really like it if blackened could go in main. I contacted the
maintainer, but he's not very responsive lately :(
I'd be very glad if someone could make this issues a bit more clear for
me.
Thanks,
Bye,
Joost van Baal
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http://mdcc.cx/
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