Bug#942358: RFS: osc2midi/0.2.5-1 Highly flexible and configurable OSC / JACK MIDI bridge
El 20/10/19 a las 18:26, Fernando Toledo escribió:
> El 20/10/19 a las 18:14, Adam Borowski escribió:
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:52:37AM -0300, Fernando Toledo wrote:
>>> * Package name : osc2midi
>>> Version : 0.2.5-1
>>
>>> Changes since the last upload:
>>>
>>> * Initial release (Closes: #942333)
>>
>> Hi!
>> I'm afraid that the copyright file requires some work.
>>
>> According to you, the only used licenses are:
>> Files: *
>> Copyright: 2019 Spencer Jackson <ssjackson71@gmail.com>
>> License: GPL-3+
>>
>> Files: debian/*
>> Copyright: 2019 Fernando Toledo <ragnarok@docksud.com.ar>
>> License: GPL-2+
>>
>> Yet I see for example a 2014 BSD2 file.
>> But, that one can be somewhat argued to be covered by the global license.
>> A more troubling part is:
>>
>> // Original code by Frank Pfenning from CMU (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/), see
>> // https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15122-f10/lectures/22-mem/. The code
>> // doesn't carry any license notes and thus presumably is in the public
>> // domain.
>>
>> /* Hash tables (fixed size)
>> * 15-122 Principles of Imperative Computation, Fall 2010
>> * Frank Pfenning
>> */
>>
>> While I consider copyright laws to be a crime against humanity, we are
>> forced to obey them. And according to them, code without any license cannot
>> be distributed at all by anyone but the copyright holder.
>>
>> Thus sorry, but until a license is found/granted, or this file replaced, the
>> package cannot be uploaded, not even to non-free. Perhaps there's a blanket
>> statement somewhere?
>>
>>
>> Meow!
>>
> thanks Adam, i will contact the author to these files, to clarify the
> licence status! and reupload to mentors if can fix it.
>
>
>
>
Hi Adam, you have been cc in the message thread with Frank Pfenning, he
agreed to license the files under the gpl license
Can you telme if i need another step?
These letters should be included into the package as evidence of the
agreetment?
Thanks you!
Saludos!
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Fernando Toledo
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