Statue of fatback in Debian
Hi,
has anyone of tried to resolve the situation of fatback?
regards,
-mika-
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From: Torsten Werner <ftpmaster@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:21:41 +0000
Subject: fatback_1.3-1_i386.changes REJECTED
Message-ID: <E1McSZB-0004br-S3 at ries.debian.org>
Hi,
the files fatback-manual.* state
Copyright @copyright{} 2000-2001 DoD Computer Forensics Lab
This manual and the Fatback program are for @strong{government and law
enforcement use only}.
which is incompatible to the DFSG.
The copyright of getopt.* is also not documented in the copyright file.
Cheers,
Torsten
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----- Forwarded message from Tim <tim-projects at sentinelchicken.org> -----
From: Tim <tim-projects@sentinelchicken.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:46:32 -0700
Subject: fatback_1.3-1_i386.changes REJECTED
Message-ID: <20090815234632.GQ2829 at sentinelchicken.org>
> the files fatback-manual.* state
> Copyright @copyright{} 2000-2001 DoD Computer Forensics Lab
> This manual and the Fatback program are for @strong{government and law
> enforcement use only}.
> which is incompatible to the DFSG.
The above copyright statement seems to be a weak attempt to restrict
usage of the fatback program, but this is likely not enforceable.
Works of the US Goverment are, in general, not copyrightable at all.
See: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
"105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any
work of the United States Government, but the United States
Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights
transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
Perhaps the copyright were transferred, but I would be surprised. In
any case, I agree that some investigation may need to be done before
establishing that it is indeed in the public domain.
tim
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