Difference between license in files and in COPYING file

2010-02-12 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, I want to overtake the package d4x, which is still in Debian repository. And this package need some development (upstream), which I could do, too. The old developer = author have deleted the hole package website and nobody have heard of him for a long time ( 4 years I mean). But now I

Re: Difference between license in files and in COPYING file

2010-02-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:18:57 +0100 Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Hello, Hi! I want to overtake the package d4x, [...] But now I have seen, that this package is not fully licensed under the Artistic license 1.0 (as everybody would thought), but each source file have the following header:

Re: Difference between license in files and in COPYING file

2010-02-12 Thread Ben Finney
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de writes: The old developer = author have deleted the hole package website and nobody have heard of him for a long time ( 4 years I mean). That does make it rather more difficult; the copyright regime we live under means that, regardless of the fact no-one has

opencascade license in squeeze

2010-02-12 Thread cristian paul peƱaranda rojas
Hello, I was checking opencascade in lenny was in non-free, but in queeze is in main-free now :D So i guess the new license is okay with debian legal and free sofware, but can anyone in shorts word explainme why please :) Saludos Cristian Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to