-=| Antony Gelberg, Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:32:44AM +0000 |=- > On 2008-05-08, Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> wrote: > > Some clarification of copyright/licensing could still be done: > > Actually, the examples are all the same as the ones in > libcurses-ui-perl, but with minimal changes. e.g: > > antony@cubase:~/src/debian/perl/build/Curses-UI-POE-0.031$ diff > /usr/share/doc/libcurses-ui-perl/examples/color_editor > examples/color_editor > 7c7 > < # This file is part of Curses::UI. Curses::UI is free software. > --- > > # This file is part of Curses::UI::POE. Curses::UI::POE is free > > software. Ouch! This means that their authors are completely different? This should be reflected somehow in the files (and consequently in debian/copyright). > > examples/color_editor: > > # (c) 2001-2002 by Maurice Makaay. All rights reserved. > > # This file is part of Curses::UI::POE. Curses::UI::POE is free > > # software. > > # You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms > > # as perl itself. > > # > > # e-mail: maurice@gitaar.net > > # > > # Color demo 2003 (c) by Marcus Thiesen > > # marcus@cpan.org > > > > I wonder what license Marcus wants for his work. > > I can contact him and ask, but is it not common sense to assume that if > Marcus had wanted a different licence to the above, he would have > specified? I don't think, if several people work on code, that each > person should have to specify his own licence. No if it was written as: © Some Author. All rights reserved. © Another author. This file is free ... then there would not be any doubt. The way it is written makes me wonder what was intented. > > examples/demo-color, demo-language, demo-widgets, hello_world, > > irc_client, mouse_focustest, pop3_reader: > > no copyright/license whatsoever. Not critical as it would be /assumed/ > > "same as the main module", but while you are at it... :) > > > > As per what I said about the diff above, I think I really need to ask > Curses::UI upstream about this, as it applies to both that and > Curses::UI::POE. I think it would be easier if ::POE upstream add something like Based on work of <insert relevant Curses::UI author here>. Copyright <years> <the original author> Copyright <years> <the ::POE author> This file is free ... <license terms> It is very good that upstream is responsive. If they weren't, I guess we'd have no other choice but to ship whatever we have now, adding the license-less files to debian/copyright and explaining the state (and leaving the finall decision to ftp-masters). -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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