Bug#635891: Copyright and licensing information for Pika
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
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