Hi, Am Di 25 Mär 2008 03:07:24 CET schrieb "Mauro Lizaur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I intended to do a qa upload to fix some bugs on the package > mined [0] which is orphaned[1], and i got a lintian warning about > the file debian/copyright where it has no copyright holder, > when i asked to the upstream maintainer of this issue he answered me > this [2] also i asked in comp.os.minix [3] about mined and got no > answer so far btw, i've seen lots of packages [4] with this lintian > warning too, and doesn't seem to be a big problem.. The upstream maintainer says: > originally (i.e. ~ 20 years ago), we took mined from the Minix > operating system which was a free academic project, > and the mined.doc file did not mention a copyright. > So no, I do not think the original author could claim a copyright. > Also he is not reachable on the net, I had already tried that > a few years ago. If there is no specific license for mined, but it is taken from Minix, the Minix copyright notice will apply. Last time I had my hands on it (early 90ies) Minix was being licensed commercially, for research and educational purposes only, see the license at http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/ld/MINIX-README.html If Minix had been a free project (in the Debian sense), Linux wouldn't have been necessary... Minix3 seems to have a more free license, see http://www.minix3.org/license.html But that wasn't available 20 years ago, it looks like the mined fork was made from commercial software. Michael Below -- Michael Below Rechtsanwalt www.judiz.de
