Bug#517404: Review of the copyright file of polyorb_2.6.0~20090311-1.dsc.
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Dear Reto, Xavier and Ludovic,
In the hope of speeding up and strenghtening the processing of NEW I had a look
at your package. The rationale is explained in the proposal in the following
wiki page: http://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview
I could not find on-line traces of the relicensing of PolyORB to the GPL. Maybe
you can clarify if the Maintainer's note comes from a private email or a file
in the subversion repository.
Although I could not download the orig.tar.gz file of your package, I checked
out the PolyORB Subversion sources and found files in ./testsuite/idls/test*
with the following header:
// Copyright (c) 1997 X/Open Company Ltd., A member of The Open Group.
//
// All rights reserved. No part of this source code may be reproduced,
// stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any
// means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
// except as stated in the end-user licence agreement, without the prior
// permission of the copyright owners.
It is unclear what the end-user licence agreement is; maybe it can be clarified?
Other undocumented copyright holders follow:
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Alcatel
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1989- 2001, Hewlett-Packard Company
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Highlander Communications, L.C.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Inprise Corporation
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1995 - 2001, IONA Technologies, Ltd.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998 - 2001, Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Inc.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, 2001, Lucent Technologies, Inc.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Nortel Networks
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 2002,Object Management Group, Inc.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, 2001, Objective Interface Systems, Inc.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Object-Oriented Concepts, Inc.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1991 - 2001, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
./idls/RTCORBA/RTCORBA.idl://Copyright � 1998,1999, Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.
./compilers/ciao/ada_be-mappings-dsa.adb:-- Copyright (C) 1999-2002 ENST Paris University, France. --
./compilers/ciao/ciao-types.ads:-- Copyright (C) 1999 �cole nationale sup�rieure des t�l�communications.
./compilers/ciao/ciao-alloc.ads:-- Copyright (C) 1999 �cole nationale sup�rieure des t�l�communications.
./compilers/ciao/ciao-hostparm.ads:-- Copyright (C) 1999 �cole nationale sup�rieure des t�l�communications.
If these files are included in your orig.tar.gz file, you will probably have to
document them in debian/copyright in order for your package to be accepted.
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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