XUL template - proper license
Hello all, I am making the xul-ext-zotero package and I have a question regarding the following file in the source code: https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/master/chrome/content/zotero- platform/unix/standalone/menuOverlay.xul It is a XUL template, and includes the following copyright notice: The Original Code is Mozilla.org Code. The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Netscape Communications Corporation. All Rights Reserved. It's not clear to me which (if any) parts of the code is (C) Netscape. I think they just used it as a base to write their own menu in XUL. So I wonder: should I disregard this notice and consider this file to be part of Zotero, and thus AGPLv3? And if not, how should I write it in my DEP-5 compliant debian/copyright file?? Thank you in advance, Theodore Lytras -- Beauty is transitory Beauty survives - Mr. Spock Capt. Kirk, That which survives, stardate unknown by Theodore Lytras thlyt...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202122050.45869.thlyt...@gmail.com
Re: XUL template - proper license
I suggest contacting upstream to clarify the situation. There is no indication of the license before Zotero took it nor any indication if it is compatible with the GNU AGPL and therefore the file might not even be distributable. That said, the file is pretty small so I wonder if it is even copyrightable. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6huhpxurx5wfnzincgqry4j+htcw7otexvnj5o4s5f...@mail.gmail.com
Re: XUL template - proper license
Le Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:50:45PM +0200, Θοδωρής Λύτρας a écrit : https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/master/chrome/content/zotero- platform/unix/standalone/menuOverlay.xul It is a XUL template, and includes the following copyright notice: The Original Code is Mozilla.org Code. The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Netscape Communications Corporation. All Rights Reserved. It's not clear to me which (if any) parts of the code is (C) Netscape. I think they just used it as a base to write their own menu in XUL. So I wonder: should I disregard this notice and consider this file to be part of Zotero, and thus AGPLv3? And if not, how should I write it in my DEP-5 compliant debian/copyright file?? Dear Theodore, looking at this file, and after reading https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Overlays, I think that there is nothing copyrightable remaining from whaterver template the Zotero authors used. Paul's suggest to ask them for confirmation is of course good to take. To document the current file in the machine-readable format, you can either add the Netscape copyright statement to the paragraph containing the Files: * pattern, as the AGPL-3+ is the main license of Zotero, or, at your option, make a specific Files paragraph for that file. In any case, machine-readable or not, you should not disregard copyright and license notices when writing the Debian copryight files. Have a nice day, and thank you very much for maintaining xul-ext-zotero ! -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120213003241.ga25...@falafel.plessy.net
