Bug#689653: Voronoi license question
Hi,
I'm writing to you as the original author of Voronoi. We from the Debian
Perl Team would like to package a Perl module, Math::Geometry::Voronoi
(http://search.cpan.org/~samtregar/Math-Geometry-Voronoi-1.3/lib/Math/Geometry/Voronoi.pm),
for Debian. The module is basically a wrapper around Derek Bradley's
improved version of your C implementation.
It seems your Voronoi code does not come with any kind of license
statement, a fact that's also noted at the above mentioned URL.
Copyright/license information is needed in order for Debian (and others)
to be able to legally distribute the software.
Could you please give us details on the following points (replying to
this email including the bug addess I've cc'd is fine):
* years of copyright of your Voronoi code
* copyright holders' names and email addesses (if you're not the
copyright holder yourself)
* the license under which Voronoi can be redistributed and modified
I apologize in advance for this request, as I understand that the last
thing most authors want to deal with is legal administrivia like this.
I'm not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that both copyright and
licensing information is vital for the continued success of open source
software. Copyright is what allows you to assert a license, and a
license is what gives others the rights to use and re-distribute your
software. A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?"
by Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
Thank you, and sorry for the noise.
Florian
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