Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:40:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:19:38PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > I'm
> > going to upload the package in its current state:
> >
> > - When old file has no copyright/license information, only the new
> > copyright/license header added by Hubert is present.
After having a look at the issue I saw that those file actually have
a reference to the AUTHORS file, which seems to be the place in TomBoy
where the copyright for all those files is declared. I personally would
guess probably fulfills the letter of law and license (but it is really only
a guess at this point). I'm a bit unsure though why it was chosen to
refer to the AUTHORS file instead of just including the copyright statement
in the file right next to the new one, which would probably have avoided
this whole discussion.
So pending a thorough review and without having seen the debian/copyright
file, I currently see no reason not to allow this in Debian. I don't think
that it contains any blatant lies about the copyright status of the work,
even though I have the feeling it tries to avoid giving credit to
the original authors any more than necessary. But that is a social issue
and not a legal one.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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