Hi again! On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:46:40AM +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Hello! > > fredag den 26 mars 2010 klockan 23:40 skrev Christoph Egger detta: > > Hi! > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 02:42:24PM +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/windowlab/windowlab_1.39-2.dsc > > > > I'm a bit converned about that patch's copyright stanza > > > > /--- > > Files: debian/patches/30_interruptible_xevent.patch > > Copyright: 1994, 1995, 1996, Mark J. Kilgard > > 2010, Simon Engelsman <simon.engelsman@gmail.com> > > License: other > > This program is freely distributable without licensing fees > > and is provided without guarantee or warrantee expressed or > > implied. This program is -not- in the public domain. > > \--- > > > > which doesn't talk about modifications at all. > > > > Yes, I have my doubts myself. This copyright text is taken directly > from the patch itself, which is copied verbatim from 'launchpadlibrarian'. > Only a renaming of the patch is due to myself. > > The upstream author has responded that if someone could convince him > about the compatibility of the licensing of Windowlab with the licensing > of the Kilgard-Engelsman patch, then he would be willing to apply it > to upstream source. > > I get the impression that S. Engelsman took the function > interruptibleXNextEvent() from Mark J. Kilgard's contribution to Blender, > and then Engelsman wrote the replacing call instead of XNextEvent(). So this patch is part of Debian's blender package? > In this sense I do not see that the source by Kilgard is modified. > Engelsman himself does not mention any license conditions. > > Would it be best to inhibit this package release altogether? One problem > is that this bug has been irregularly observed by myself, and I identified > the blocking culprit a week ago and mentioned this to the upstream author. > Now when there is a published solution, any other solution with some > resemblance to that of Kilgard-Engelsman would immediately be deemed > as infringing on their contribution. Do you see a chance to get these authors to agree on a better license? Maybe something along the lines of expat, MIT or BSD? In total I guess it's some interesting point anyway for such a small piece of code (not that I could judge about whether it's trivial). > If you say so, I will annihilate the package windowlab_1.39-2 from > mentors.debian.net. Then within shortly make an upload only containing > the format migration while I try to constuct a patch of my own. If you think that the format change is an change important enough to warrant an upload and you don't see the possibility to have that resolved soon that would be an option, yes. Regards Christoph -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon : GPG-Key ID: 0xD49AE731 \ / Campaign : CaCert Assurer X against HTML : Debian Maintainer / \ in eMails : http://www.debian.org/ http://www.christoph-egger.org/
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