Hi John, Thank you for investigating. I think it won't be necessary; I talked with my upstream and they will simply drop the file and use python-stdnum instead.
cheers, /ac * John Vandenberg <[email protected]>: > Hi Alex, > > I have emailed the two named accounts, referring them to this thread > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Orokusaki > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/WalterTross > > If they agree to provide a better license, the outstanding issue is > the IP that made a modification for compatibility reasons: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=383426059&oldid=382607308 > > IMO there is no copyright in that edit, as it merely applies a well > known transform to the code. > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Alex Chiang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Looking for guidance. I'm trying to close ITP #492875; the > > upstream includes a file... this is the entire file: > > > > http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/740724/ > > > > aka, code copied from Wikipedia into a GPL-2+ package (ugh). The > > issue is no copyright notice. > > > > I went through the history of the page (double ugh!) and found > > these edits: > > > > Initial creation: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=363597751&oldid=362687349 > > > > One modification: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=368678397&oldid=363763275 > > > > Current embodiment: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luhn_algorithm&action=historysubmit&diff=383426059&oldid=382607308 > > > > Can someone please advise whether it's ok to distribute this file? > > > > Thanks! > > -- > John Vandenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
