Re: Bug#326772: Processed: bug clone
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 06.09.05 Peter S Galbraith (psg@debian.org) wrote:
>> Now for my problem... I've extracted cwebm.el from
>> cweb_files.tar.gz and I see no copyright notice. It doesn't
>> directly `load' any Emacs code so perhaps it doesn't need to be
>> GPL'ed, but it needs a copyright notice of some sort. It is
>> assumed to have the same license as TeX? Does the license permit
>> the modification being released under the same name? I recall
>> there's something funky about that in the TeX license...
Yes, Clause 4 of the DFSG has a special exception exactly for that.
> The cweb.el sits in the teTeX sources in texk/web2c/cwebdir. Also
> there in is a file README, I'm attaching. The most important part is:
>
> % Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
> % this document provided that the copyright notice and this
> % permission notice are preserved on all copies.
>
> % Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
> % this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided
> % that the entire resulting derived work is given a different name
> % and distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to
> % this one.
>
> % Please send comments, suggestions, etc. to
> % levy <at> math.berkeley.edu .
>
> % This directory contains the following files:
>
> cweb.el
>
> So, either we distribute that file as cwebm.el (or any other name) and
> have a mark in the header, that this is an replacement for cweb.el or
> we try to contact Silvio Levy.
>
> Max, is that acceptable for you? Any other suggestions?
We should put those lines from README into the file, anyway. I think
Silvio is that one:
http://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/
and
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/about/people/home/levy.html
Unfortunately, this geom institute does no longer exist. According to
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/about/people/home/levy-home.html
he could be reached at levy@geom.umn.edu, but there are no recent search
results on their page. Maybe it's worth a try, anyway.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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