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Bug#323913: tstat copyright/license issues for deb package



Hi Eduardo,

Thanks for pointing out these licensing issues. My understanding about
the problem is probably not high, but
after some discussion here I think GPLv2 is fine for us.
BTW, we are going to release a new version of tstat in the next days.
And we'll fix all license issue there.
If you'd like to test it, you can refer to the svn version which is in
the trunk branch.
We'll also send you an email when the new version will be ready.
Thanks again,
Marco

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Eduardo Ferro
<eferro@alea-soluciones.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I am working in the creation of a debian package for tstat. I am
> working with the tstat 2.0.1.
> At this point I have a functional packages (libtstat0_2.0.1-1_i386.deb
>  libtstat-dev_2.0.1-1_i386.deb  tstat_2.0.1-1_i386.deb), but I have
> some dudes about license/copyright of some files....
> It would be great if this issues can be corrected / clarified (I can
> help if desired)....
>
> 1) I have no references about the license of tstat/ns.c, the copyright
> is from Kevin Lahey (kml@novell.com), but I don't know if the code is
> released, public domain?, GPL?, BSD?, etc.... and this issue could be
> a problem to use into a GPL soft.
>
> 2) The following files don't have a explicit note of copyright or license.
> ./include/libtstat.h
> ./tstat/DPMI.c
> ./tstat/jabber.c
> ./tstat/jabber.h
> ./tstat/msn.c
> ./tstat/msn.h
> ./tstat/ymsg.c
> ./tstat/ymsg.h
>
> 3) The file tstat/ipp2p_tstat.c have not clear copyright... because it contains:
>  * Copyright (c) 2001-2008
>  *      Politecnico di Torino.  All rights reserved.
>  *
>  * This code is derived from IPP2P, an  extension to iptables to identify P2P
>  * traffic, written by Eicke Friedrich and Klaus Degner <ipp2p@ipp2p.org>
>  * Original code available at http://ipp2p.org/
>
> So, I not know how to describe this copyright.
>
> 4) Furthermore, I think that the license of this file
> (tstat/ipp2p_tstat.c) should be a GPL-v2 (I think this is the license
> from ipp2p.org), so it can be a problem to mix some files with GPL-2
> and some with GPL-v3. So I think it is important to fix this license,
> because It can affect to the overall license (GPL-v2 / GPL-v3)
>
> 5) The tstat license seems to be GPL-v3, but a lot of files have the
> previous license/copyright note for GPL-v2, so I suppose that the
> migration to GPL-v3 is not complete (See
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v3HowToUpgrade for
> further detail)
>
> Any news/changes/info regarding this issues would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance....
> Best regards
>
>
> Sorry for my English
> --
> Hasta otra!!!
>
>    Eduardo Ferro Aldama
>    Alea Soluciones
>
>



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