Bug#689653: Voronoi license question
THANK you!
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 08:20:55PM +0000, Fortune, Steven (Steven) wrote:
> Hi Florian:
> The Voronoi package will include the license, attached.
> --Steve Fortune
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Schlichting [mailto:fschlich@ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE]
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 5:11 PM
> To: Fortune, Steven (Steven)
> Cc: 689653@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: 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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