No-Copyright?
Hi,
one (Java) source file of an ITP package (jcdf) has the following comments:
* The code for the Huffman and Adaptive Huffman decompressing stream
* implementations in this class is based on the C implementation in
* "The Data Compression Book" (Mark Nelson, 1992), via the code
* in cdfhuff.c from the CDF source distribution.
*
* <p>On the topic of intellectual property, Mark Nelson
* <a href="http://marknelson.us/code-use-policy";>says</a>:
* <ul>
* <li>It is my intention that anyone who buys the book or magazine be free
* to use the source code in any form they please. I only request that
* any use that involves public reproduction include proper attribution.
* any use that involves public reproduction include proper attribution.
* <li>I assert that in no case will I initiate or cooperate with any attempt
* to enforce the copyright on the source code, whether it belongs to me
* or a publisher.
* </ul>
* And I even bought the book (MBT).
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/jcdf.git/tree/BitExpandInputStream.java
What is this? No-enforce-copyright with an attribution requirement?
Upstream itself uses LGPL-3.
Best regards
Ole
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