All'incirca Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:04:37 +0100, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> sembrerebbe aver scritto: > > In my packages (but I think that this applies to many others) I have > > some very little files, such as README or tiny documentations, which > > don't include any specification of copyright holder or license > > terms, and that are so little that it would be absurd to add them. > > Doesn't the combination have any either? If the combination is big > enough to be copyrightable (and that's not big at all), then without > such a statement Debian cannot distribute it. The statement doesn't > have to be in every file (that's just recommended "to be sure", which > I think is mostly about big files), but it has to be somewhere. Well, in the package itself (that is, the tarball) nothing says that these files are copyrighted under the GPL. All the other files have a notice about their license. I think that the author didn't write one for these, because he suppose it would be absurd to mind about copyright for a little README or for a hundred lines of simple documentation, just as it would be for me to mind about copyright when quoting parts of email in replying. I think that there is no reason to worry about distributing little files just as the would be in the public domain, because they contain no particular hard work to protect (and, as a matter of fact, ftp-masters accepted the first version of my package, which contained such files). And I think that the machine readable copyright format should handle this case, adding a new pseudo-license code in the list present on the Wiki. It's not bad, about this topic, to take a look at: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/26/1612223 :-P Thank you, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascellani@gmail.com> Pisa, Italy Web: http://giomasce.altervista.org SIP: g.mascellani@ekiga.net Jabber: g.mascellani@jabber.org / giovanni@elabor.homelinux.org GPG: 0x5F1FBF70 (FP: 1EB6 3D43 E201 4DDF 67BD 003F FCB0 BB5C 5F1F BF70)
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