Jesse van den Kieboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /****************************************************************************** > Copyright (c) 1992, 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. All rights > reserved. > Portions of this code were written by Stephen White, aka ghond. > Use and copying of this software and preparation of derivative works > based > upon this software are permitted. Any distribution of this software > or > derivative works must comply with all applicable United States export > control laws. This software is made available AS IS, and Xerox > Corporation > makes no warranty about the software, its performance or its > conformity to > any specification. Any person obtaining a copy of this software is > requested > to send their name and post office or electronic mail address to: > Pavel Curtis > Xerox PARC > 3333 Coyote Hill Rd. > Palo Alto, CA 94304 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *****************************************************************************/ > > I'm not sure how to handle this: > Any person obtaining a copy of this software is requested to send their > name and post office or electronic mail address to
To me, that sounds like "Public Domain, plus a reminder to abide by the law (which is irrelevant), plus a warranty disclaimer (which is irrelevant) plus a non-binding request for notification". I don't see any problems with inclusion in a GPL project. > Also my package got rejected because it contains LGPL licenced parts, > but I don't know which part that is (or is that because I use all sorts > of libraries?). > > Any advice on the subject would be great. It seems to me as if the problems you have are not actual license incompatibilities, but an incomplete debian/copyright file, and obviously lack of knowledge (and care before the first upload) about the license status of the individual files. There's nothing special about packages that contain differently licensed parts, as long as they are compatible -you just need to clearly indicate this in the copyright file. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
