On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jan Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > we have a package in our archive with images for use with nagios, called > nagios-images[1]. > While reviewing the package we noticed that the copyright file[2] just > contains copy&paste GPL2 text, but there is no indication that this is true > for the images in the package. > We tried to contact the people listed in the copyright file without success. > We also contacted other distros[3], even without any significant informations > about the issue. I even tried to contact Nagios Inc.[4] (who offered the > images for download) but the mail got moderated and I never got a reply. In > the last days, I noticed Tony Yarusso from Nagios Inc. and the did ask Ethan > about the issue. The answer was: > > 'Heard back from Ethan. The answer is "I have no idea". He's just decided > it's not worth worrying about (to him), but we can't verify the source of all > of those images.' > > So ... what should we do next? > > Thanks and with kind regards, Jan. > P.S. Please CC as we are not on debian-legal, thanks. > [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-images.html > [2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nagios/nagios-images/trunk/debian/copyright > [3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2010- > May/004936.html > [4] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2010- > May/004945.html > -- > Never write mail to <[email protected]>, you have been warned! > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GIT d-- s+: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ > PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI D+ G++ e++ h---- r+++ y++++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > >
Trying using 'strings' on each file and see if you can find any copyright info. Next is to try and see if the images are hosted in some other software/website throughout the Internet and see if any copyright information is available from wherever you look. The latter option obviously will take a long time and is probably not worth worrying about after a certain amount of time of searching. -- Regards, Andres Mejia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
