Bug#635891: Copyright and licensing information for Pika

["Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@myyearbook.com>]

Assuming you're like to start with 0.9.5, I'd suggest we make the changes to the files and release a 0.9.5r1 based off the 0.9.5 tag.

Let me know if Marek's proposed changes are satisfactory or even necessary. I don't think adding the copyright holders to COPYING creates an issue, however I don't see the value.

Debian has approved the MPL in its current form with that verbiage AFAIK:

http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#MozillaPublicLicense.28MPL.29

Gavin

On Friday, July 29, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Marek Majkowski wrote:

On 07/29/2011 02:53 PM, Jan Dittberner wrote:

I'd like to package Pika for Debian. The associated ITP (intend to
package) bug in the Debian bug tracking system is [1].

Great news!

(I CC Gavin, the maintainer)

The Pika web site states that Pika is dual licensed as MPLv1.1 and
GPLv2.0 which both are acceptable free software licenses. What made
me worry are two things:

- a missing declaration of copyright holders with copyright years in
the COPYING file

We could copy the copyright holders from LICENSE-MPL-Pika to COPYING,
though we will end up in the same stuff in two places.

- the statement "All rights reserved." at the end of LICENSE-MPL-Pika
that is normally used in proprietary license/copyright texts only

This is taken from the MPL template.

Marek