Hello,
I'd like to package Pika for Debian. The associated ITP (intend to
package) bug in the Debian bug tracking system is [1].
I started work on the package but started to worry when I tried to
create a proper debian/copyright file from the license information
included in the Pika source tarball and github repository.
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
- the statement "All rights reserved." at the end of LICENSE-MPL-Pika
that is normally used in proprietary license/copyright texts only
I would like to get a clarification from you idealy a list of
copyright holders with years like:
Copyright (C) 20xx Author A
Copyright (C) 20xy Company B
...
it would also be great if the "All rights reserved." statement could
be removed or its meaning could be explained in detail so that Pika
can be included in the Debian main archive.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635891
Kind Regards,
Jan Dittberner
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