On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 23:39:19 +0100 stressware2@ruggedinbox.com wrote: > > Please note that IANADD, I am just a Debian external contributor. > > I don't speak on behalf of the Debian Project or of the Debian FTP > > Masters: please contact them, if you want to know their opinion. > > How would I contact them? Their collective e-mail address is <ftpmaster@debian.org>, as listed in https://www.debian.org/intro/organization > > > Among other things, I noticed that also fbreader includes files under > > this same license: > > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/f/fbreader/copyright-0.12.10dfsg-10 > > This is what one of the files mentioned in the fbreader copyright file > says: > > <!-- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Organization for the Advancement of Structured > Information Standards (OASIS). > > $Id: ISOpub.ent,v 1.3 2002/12/13 22:47:23 adam Exp $ > > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this entity set > and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without > fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above > copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The > copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of > the entities for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without > expressed or implied warranty. > > Please direct all questions, bug reports, or suggestions for > changes to the docbook@lists.oasis-open.org mailing list. For more > information, see http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/. > > Derived, in part, from: > > * iso-pub.gml > > Copyright (C) 1986 International Organization for Standardization > Permission to copy in any form is granted for use with > conforming SGML systems and applications as defined in > ISO 8879, provided this notice is included in all copies. > > * http://www.tug.org/applications/jadetex/unicode.xml > > * ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MISC/SGML.TXT > > Please use the following formal public identifier to identify it: > > ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Publishing//EN//XML > --> > > It seems that they think that the files can be relicenced. Perhaps > because the derivation is trivial enough? Maybe they obtained a permission to derive those files from iso-pub.gml, I don't know. It's actually unclear to me, as it is not explicitly explained: they say the file is derived in part from a file with no permission to modify, so it seems that the derived file is legally undistributable (copyright violation). But, as I said, maybe there's more than what is written there... Any other debian-legal regular willing to share his/her opinion? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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