Hello,
I have a few questions regarding public domain and DEP-5-compliant
debian/copyright files:
1. I have files in a program with the following copyright statement:
# Copyright (C) 2002-2010, 2013, 2014 ...
# Copyright (C) 2000 ...
#
# This program is in the public
Thank you for your replies. It's a pity that properly releasing
something in the public domain is apparently so difficult. The intent
here was to make sure that anyone be free to copy anything from this
file and use it in derivative works without restriction since it is a
demo for a library.
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote:
Hello Florent,
you can decouple the two issues:
- The package is totally redistributable in Debian as it is, you do
not need to relicense the files to update to the new upstream release.
- You can work on the resolving the apparent
Hi,
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
I've been a primary proponent of that point of view, and I think it's
probably correct. But I wouldn't claim it's *established*; no qualified
legal expert has said anything so definite here, I believe.
OK, I see.
[...]
I wouldn't want to
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