On 03.11.05 Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel@debian.org) wrote: Hi Martin > * There is no "Public Domain" in German Law. I don't know for Austrian, > but i guess it is the same. > * even if there is PD in Austria the mails from your upstream in > debian/copyright should be digitaly signed, so everyone can see this > mails are from him. It might not been needed, but it makes it easier > if the are in the initial upload, as Joerg Jaspert might complain if > they are not. It makes things go smoother in the NEW-Queue. > * your changelog entry "and may be distributed and modified (with > permission from the author)" might be read as: "you may only > distribute and/or only modify, if the author gives its permission." > This would fail with DFSG §1, §3 and §5 and therefore be non-free or > not even that. > I've got now a signed E-mail from Peter Szabo, stating that the programs can be used under the GPL license. I plan now to: - add a COPYING file to the "upstream tar ball" containing the GPL - add a changelog to the "upstream tar ball", which will mostly contain only the license story. I'll state in there that it is rather a pseudo changelog as the programs itself never changed - take the E-Mail and add it as readme.lic, to the "upstream tar ball". Hmm, the mail is signed as Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline can I simply extract only the message and the sig from the E-Mail instead of including the whole E-Mail? Anything more to do? H. -- http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/
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