Re: wikipedia code copied into source?

[Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com>]

Hi John,

Thank you for investigating. I think it won't be necessary; I
talked with my upstream and they will simply drop the file and
use python-stdnum instead.

cheers,
/ac

* John Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> I have emailed the two named accounts, referring them to this thread
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Orokusaki
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/WalterTross
> 
> If they agree to provide a better license, the outstanding issue is
> the IP that made a modification for compatibility reasons:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=383426059&oldid=382607308
> 
> IMO there is no copyright in that edit, as it merely applies a well
> known transform to the code.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Looking for guidance. I'm trying to close ITP #492875; the
> > upstream includes a file... this is the entire file:
> >
> >        http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/740724/
> >
> > aka, code copied from Wikipedia into a GPL-2+ package (ugh). The
> > issue is no copyright notice.
> >
> > I went through the history of the page (double ugh!) and found
> > these edits:
> >
> > Initial creation:
> >        http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=363597751&oldid=362687349
> >
> > One modification:
> >        http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=368678397&oldid=363763275
> >
> > Current embodiment:
> >        http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=383426059&oldid=382607308
> >
> > Can someone please advise whether it's ok to distribute this file?
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> John Vandenberg