Hi,
opening a new thread for a totally different question: copyright. As you might
know, Debian is "more than picky" about copyright issues. Analyzing libvista
sources, I've found that there's no complete copyright information :(. Here's
what I achieved after almost an hour of "surfing the code":
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Source: http://od1n.sourceforge.net/
Files: debian/*
Copyright: © 2008, David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
License: GPL-3+
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Files: *
Copyright: © who?
License: GPL-2+
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Files: vista/file.h
vista/mu.h
vista/option.h
vista/os.h
vista/Adjust.c
vista/Alloc.c
vista/Attr.c
vista/Complex.c
vista/ConvertC.c
vista/ConvertL.c
vista/ConvertO.c
vista/ConvertR.c
vista/Convolve.c
vista/ConvolveSep.c
vista/Dictionary.c
vista/Dither.c
vista/Error.c
vista/Fft.c
vista/FileIO.c
vista/Fill.c
vista/ForkImageDpy.c
vista/FuncMin.{c,h}
vista/Gradient.c
vista/GradientSeq.c
vista/Image.c
vista/ImageDpy.c
vista/ImageType.c
vista/Invert.c
vista/Kernel.c
vista/LinSysMin.{c,h}
vista/Op.c
vista/Option.c
vista/PackData.c
vista/Param.c
vista/Sample.c
vista/SegEdges.c
vista/Stats.c
vista/Synth.c
vista/Type.c
vista/UbcIff.c
vista/VCamera.h
vista/VImage.h
vista/Vlib.h
Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia
Arthur Pope, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
implied warranty.
Files: vista/Calibrate.c
vista/CameraError.c
vista/Coord.c
Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia
Arthur Pope, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence
from implementation by Reg Willson, Carnegie Mellon
University
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
implied warranty.
Files: vista/Camera.c
vista/Edges.c
vista/EdgesType.c
vista/Link.c
vista/VEdges.h
vista/VGraph.h
vista/ZeroC.c
Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia
David Lowe, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
implied warranty.
Files: vista/postscript.h
vista/Canny.c
vista/EdgesToPS.c
vista/Flip.c
vista/GaussConv.c
vista/ImageToPS.c
vista/List.c
vista/ReadPlain.c
vista/ReadPnm.c
vista/RGBToGray.c
vista/Rotate.c
vista/Scale.c
vista/Shear.c
vista/Transpose.c
vista/VList.h
Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia
Daniel Ko, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
implied warranty.
Files: vista/Crop.c
Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia
Arthur Pope,
Ralph Horstman,
UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
implied warranty.
Files: vista/OptFlowWLS.c
Copyright: © 1994, University of British Columbia
Arthur Pope, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence
from implementation by John Barron, University of
Western Ontario
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
implied warranty.
Files: vista/Volumes.{c,h}
vista/VolumesOps.c
vista/VolumesType.c
Copyright: © 1995-1996, Gabriele Lohmann, MPI/CNS, <lohmann@cns.mpg.de>
License: NONE TODO!
Files: vista/Xfuncproto.h
Copyright: © 1989, 1991, 1998, The Open Group
License: other
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
[..]
in this Software without prior written authorization from The Open Group.
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Ok, here we go: most of the source code is © Arthur Pope from UBC. I believe
I'd include that as the "main" copyright holder (i.e. the section beginning
with "Files: *") -- all others become "exceptions".
Secondly, there's no copyright statement for files © Gabriele Lohmann, MPI/CNS.
Before contacting him, do you have any written statement about copyright for
those files?
Thirdly, there are some files which do not carry any statement: who owns their
copyright? These files are:
vista/AddFunc.c
vista/arithm.c
vista/GraphType.c
I suppose they're © by the odin team, but I need that written somewhere.
Please, fix these problems, so libvista can enter Debian gracefully :)
Kindly,
David
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