Re: [MoM] r-cran-nnls: please fix copyright
Hi Alba,
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:56:01AM +0100, Alba Crespi wrote:
> >
> > From a Debian point of view I can tell you that it is safe to list the
> > author under Copyright and public-domain as license. This is what
> > ftpmaster wants you to do to accept the package (at least to my
> > experience) and I think this makes some sense to fit different law
> > systems.
> >
>
> Well, I found a discussion about how to describe public-domain files in the
> machine readable copyright format:
>
> #694883
>
> which you can see here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/694883
>
> This bug report also references a discussion starting here:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/12/msg00000.html
>
> Thread view:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/12/threads.html#00000
>
> So as far as I understand in this case it should be ok to put:
>
> Copyright: none
Good catch. So we could try this and upload to new. In case ftpmaster
will not like this we are "prepared". Feel free to push your according
change and I'll upload.
I like MoM since I can always learn something from my students ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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