Re: ad hoc license: is it DFSG-conformant ? [IMPROVED VERSION]
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Hello Forum.
Finally I get a feed back from the upstream.
Please find below the new version: what do you think ?
Thanks,
Jerome
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This is the [[license]] for the software package Nauty and
Traces, [[package]] versions 2.6 and later.
Four categories of software are included in the package:
A. All files not listed as B-D below, copyright Brendan McKay (1984-)
B. Files traces.h, traces.c and dretodot.c, copyright Adolfo Piperno (2008-)
C. File watercluster2.c, copyright Gunnar Brinkmann (2009-)
D. Files planarity.h and planarity.c, copyright Magma project,
University of Sydney
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modification of this software [[in source or compiled form]],
subject to the following.
* You must include this copyright notice with all distributed
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* You must clearly mark modified versions of this software
as differing from the original.
Regarding all the files in the package:
This software is only provided "as is". No guarantee is made
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for any misfortune which befalls [[anyone]] because of its use. Your
use of this software implies your agreement with this notice.
[[Modified versions of the software and works derived from it
may be distributed under the same terms and conditions.]]
Brendan McKay: Australian National University; Brendan.McKay@anu.edu.au
Adolfo Piperno: University of Rome "Sapienza"; piperno@di.uniroma1.it
Gunnar Brinkmann: University of Ghent; Gunnar.Brinkmann@UGent.be
Magma Administration: University of Sydney; admin@maths.usyd.edu.au
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Comments from the upstream team:
``Here is a slight modification for [your] comments.
[The upstream author] added a sentence to cover DFSL#3 and also made a small
number of other changes. All new text is within [[...]]; obviously those brackets
will be gone when the license is actually used.''
On 12/03/16 14:14, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
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> On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Riley Baird wrote:
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>>> Please let me know if would be good idea to contact the upstream team to clarify their Copyright.
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>> I know you were asking Ben, but really, I'd say that it isn't worth the
>> effort. Try submitting the package to the archive, and if the FTP
>> masters reject it, you can deal with the problem then.
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> hmm, talking to upstream is always a good idea.
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> The time of the ftpteam is always limited. So if I had to review the package, I would be glad if all issues had been resolved before.
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> Thorsten
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