Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright
Le Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 06:50:49PM +0200, Florent Rougon a écrit :
>
> [ Remainder: this thread is about a file whose copyright/licensing
> statement is of the form:
>
> # Copyright (C) 2002-2010, 2013, 2014 ...
> # Copyright (C) 2000 ...
> #
> # This program is in the public domain.
>
> It has been established by the mavens from this list that the
> copyright statements contradict the "public domain" assertion, and
> that simply stating "This program is in the public domain" is not
> enough to make it so in general. As a consequence, I am trying to have
> the file relicensed under a proper license such as BSD-2 or BSD-3. I
> have also taken note of the suggestions given here about the Apache
> Software Foundation License 2.0 (which I am still considering) and the
> CC-0, thank you. ]
>
> Sorry for the little delay. I have recently tried to contact the person
> who is most likely, appart from me, to legitimately own some copyright
> over the file in question in this thread, namely demo.py from
> pythondialog (python-dialog in Debian). This person has been friendly in
> the past, there is no problem on this side, however time is pressing
> because of the imminent freeze of jessie and I am therefore considering
> the other alternative.
Hello Florent,
you can decouple the two issues:
- The package is totally redistributable in Debian as it is, you do
not need to relicense the files to update to the new upstream release.
- You can work on the resolving the apparent contradiction at the
pace you want, you can even consider it a wishlist, “patch welcome”
issue only.
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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