On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:34:17PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruno Barrera C.) by replying > to this email.
I know I sound like a pain in the ass, but the new copyright file still doesn't list detailed copyright and upstream information. Also, the GPL is a bad license to apply to images, because it requires source distribution (photoshop or whatever), not just free distribution of the final product. For that reason, I'd been asking people about MIT licensing, which everyone I contacted was willing to provide. Read http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg00007.html for information about what you need to include in the debian/copyright file. I've attached the copyright file that I had compiled for the old Debian package based on contacting people and asking them about licensing. It looks like you've taken out all of the styles that I hadn't managed to obtain permission to redistribute, so I assume that you've also contacted people and gotten their permission to redistribute these files, so the only problem now is fixing the copyright file to include the needed information.
This package is an aggregation of styles and backgrounds from many authors. The copyright information for each style is as follows. All of the authors below have agreed to provide their work under the MIT license (some by private arrangement over email). The MIT license is included at the bottom of this file, for reference. === Igloo * Copyright: © 2004 Carlos Oliva G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: None * License: MIT === Nva91 style * Copyright: © 2002 Jesse Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/nva91/ * License: MIT === Nva91 background * Copyright: © 2002 Kevin Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/646793/ * License: MIT === Bombskew style * Copyright: © 2003 Marcus Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/bombskew/ * License: MIT === Bombskew background * Copyright: © 2002 Eric Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/170777/ * License: MIT === Reaction style & background * Copyright: © 2000 Youngjin Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/reaction/ * License: MIT === WhiteBox style & background * Copyright: © 2003 Volkan Yazıcı <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Upstream: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whitebox/ * License: MIT ===================== === The MIT license ===================== Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
