Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-03 Thread Florian Rothmaier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jérémy, Am 01.12.2012 12:28, schrieb Jérémy Lal: I thought public-domain wasn't DFSG (because it's not in some countries). That's interesting and something new to me. The public domain is listed on the page http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-03 Thread Florian Rothmaier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Francesco, Charles and Kuno, thank you very much for your helpful answers and clarifications! I didn't receive Kuno's original mail (maybe because there was no CC to me) but I hope that I got the relevant parts from the quoted paragraphs (his

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-03 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 03/12/2012 10:38, Florian Rothmaier wrote: Hi Jérémy, Am 01.12.2012 12:28, schrieb Jérémy Lal: I thought public-domain wasn't DFSG (because it's not in some countries). That's interesting and something new to me. The public domain is listed on the page

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:47:47 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : P.P.S.: I am not sure what you should write in the Copyright field for the upstream files, but (c) 1996-2012 by Thomas A. McGlynn does not look right, as long as

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : Since one of the standard short names for the License field is public-domain, I thought that specifying Copyright: public-domain License: public-domain [explanation of why the files are in the public domain...]

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-01 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 01/12/2012 12:17, Francesco Poli wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:47:47 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : P.P.S.: I am not sure what you should write in the Copyright field for the upstream files, but (c) 1996-2012 by Thomas A.

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-12-01 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 20:34:39 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: [...] If you would like, you can open a wishlist bug, and if the specification is updated in the future (there is no timeline for this and my opinion is that currently it would be premature), this bug will remind us to consider adding a

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-11-30 Thread Florian Rothmaier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Francesco, fortunately, the upstream author Thomas MyGlynn made a new release for which he added a statement that the code is in the public domain. In my debian package which can be found at http://mentors.debian.net/package/fits or

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-11-30 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 11/30/2012 02:01 PM, Florian Rothmaier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Francesco, fortunately, the upstream author Thomas MyGlynn made a new release for which he added a statement that the code is in the public domain. In my debian package which can be

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-11-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:19:01 +0100 Kuno Woudt wrote: [...] On 11/30/2012 02:01 PM, Florian Rothmaier wrote: [...] fortunately, the upstream author Thomas MyGlynn made a new release for which he added a statement that the code is in the public domain. Hi Florian, this seems to be really

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : P.P.S.: I am not sure what you should write in the Copyright field for the upstream files, but (c) 1996-2012 by Thomas A. McGlynn does not look right, as long as the upstream work is really in the public domain (which, as you

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-08-30 Thread Florian Rothmaier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Francesco! Am 28.08.2012 19:19, schrieb Francesco Poli: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:37:46 +0200 Florian Rothmaier wrote: Hi to everyone involved in debian-legal, Hello! I've got a licensing issue related to the astronomical Java library

Re: licensing question for nom.tam.fits

2012-08-28 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:37:46 +0200 Florian Rothmaier wrote: Hi to everyone involved in debian-legal, Hello! I've got a licensing issue related to the astronomical Java library fits (nom.tam.fits) from Thomas McGlynn. The newest release can be obtained at: