Re: [odin-devel] [LONG] Broken (lib)vista copyright
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 20:45, David Paleino wrote:
> 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":
>
> ---8<---
> 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.
> --->8---
>
> 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?
Great job! Gabriele is in my Institiute, I will ask her personally about the
licensing of her code.
> 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.
No, I just re-packaged the original vista by ripping off everything except the
source code and added the autotools stuff without much regard for the
copyright.
> Please, fix these problems, so libvista can enter Debian gracefully :)
I will get back to you after talking to Gabriele,
thanks, Thies
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