On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:04:24PM +0200, shaulka@012.net.il wrote: > I am not sure the subject accurately reflects the body of this message. > > Narcis Ilisei has the copyright to inadyn. He released it under the gpl. > The source that he wrote is an http client of some sort Aand depends > only on libc. Now opendns.com offers to download a modified version. > Their version adds an https support. I couldn't see any copyright notice > for their version. opendns's version depends on > -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz -lkrb5support > , where ssl is provided by openssl. > > Can debian distributes opendns's version? Assuming that opendns > wrote their modifications by themselves, What should be put in > debian/copyright? > > Is the following appropriate as debian/copyright: > > Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:15:15 -0700 > > Home page is http://inadyn.ina-tech.net . > > Upstream Author: Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Narcis Ilisei, > <inarcis2002@hotpop.com> > Copyright (C) 2006-2007 http://www.opendns.com > > License: > > Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Narcis Ilisei > Copyright (C) 2006-2007 http://www.opendns.com > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under > the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software > Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later > version. > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT > ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS > FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more > details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with > this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple > Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA > > On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License > may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. > That won't work as there is no SSL excpetion for the GPL. You can check the copyright file for the httperf to see how I handled this same issue. There are others, but that is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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