Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi Frank (and all others), thanks for the clarifications! Frank Küster wrote: An earlier version of the package is already in Debian and it also contains the file Manual.texi with the same copyright information, but the file was only in the source package while the new version now contains a

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Fester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: have it relicensed. ... which means that the upstream author has to *replace* the questionable section with a reference to, for example, the GPL, right? There needs to be a statement in each copyrighted file stating the license granted to the

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Fester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you have to remove it from the orig.tar.gz, or... - Anything else? have it relicensed. ... which means that the upstream author has to *replace* the questionable section with a reference to, for example, the GPL, right? Well, a signed

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Frank Küster
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, this could be difficult, at least when generated files come into play... Generated files are, by definition, not the source code of the work; in the case of the GPL, they are not the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. Some

ies4linux

2006-07-13 Thread Matt Taggart
Hi debian-legal, Could this go in contrib? http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/index-en.html The code itself if GPL but it downloads and uses proprietary MS stuff. Seems like contrib would be ok but I wanted to check with you in case I was missing something. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL