On Tuesday 29 January 2008 20:45, David Paleino wrote: > Hi, > opening a new thread for a totally different question: copyright. As you > might know, Debian is "more than picky" about copyright issues. Analyzing > libvista sources, I've found that there's no complete copyright information > :(. Here's what I achieved after almost an hour of "surfing the code": > > ---8<--- > Source: http://od1n.sourceforge.net/ > > Files: debian/* > Copyright: © 2008, David Paleino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > License: GPL-3+ > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > Files: * > Copyright: © who? > License: GPL-2+ > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > Files: vista/file.h > vista/mu.h > vista/option.h > vista/os.h > vista/Adjust.c > vista/Alloc.c > vista/Attr.c > vista/Complex.c > vista/ConvertC.c > vista/ConvertL.c > vista/ConvertO.c > vista/ConvertR.c > vista/Convolve.c > vista/ConvolveSep.c > vista/Dictionary.c > vista/Dither.c > vista/Error.c > vista/Fft.c > vista/FileIO.c > vista/Fill.c > vista/ForkImageDpy.c > vista/FuncMin.{c,h} > vista/Gradient.c > vista/GradientSeq.c > vista/Image.c > vista/ImageDpy.c > vista/ImageType.c > vista/Invert.c > vista/Kernel.c > vista/LinSysMin.{c,h} > vista/Op.c > vista/Option.c > vista/PackData.c > vista/Param.c > vista/Sample.c > vista/SegEdges.c > vista/Stats.c > vista/Synth.c > vista/Type.c > vista/UbcIff.c > vista/VCamera.h > vista/VImage.h > vista/Vlib.h > Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia > Arthur Pope, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > implied warranty. > > Files: vista/Calibrate.c > vista/CameraError.c > vista/Coord.c > Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia > Arthur Pope, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence > from implementation by Reg Willson, Carnegie > Mellon University > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > implied warranty. > > Files: vista/Camera.c > vista/Edges.c > vista/EdgesType.c > vista/Link.c > vista/VEdges.h > vista/VGraph.h > vista/ZeroC.c > Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia > David Lowe, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > implied warranty. > > Files: vista/postscript.h > vista/Canny.c > vista/EdgesToPS.c > vista/Flip.c > vista/GaussConv.c > vista/ImageToPS.c > vista/List.c > vista/ReadPlain.c > vista/ReadPnm.c > vista/RGBToGray.c > vista/Rotate.c > vista/Scale.c > vista/Shear.c > vista/Transpose.c > vista/VList.h > Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia > Daniel Ko, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > implied warranty. > > Files: vista/Crop.c > Copyright: © 1993-1994, University of British Columbia > Arthur Pope, > Ralph Horstman, > UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > implied warranty. > > Files: vista/OptFlowWLS.c > Copyright: © 1994, University of British Columbia > Arthur Pope, UBC Lab for Computational Intelligence > from implementation by John Barron, University of > Western Ontario > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > implied warranty. > > Files: vista/Volumes.{c,h} > vista/VolumesOps.c > vista/VolumesType.c > Copyright: © 1995-1996, Gabriele Lohmann, MPI/CNS, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > License: NONE TODO! > > Files: vista/Xfuncproto.h > Copyright: © 1989, 1991, 1998, The Open Group > License: other > Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and > its [..] > in this Software without prior written authorization from The Open Group. > --->8--- > > Ok, here we go: most of the source code is © Arthur Pope from UBC. I > believe I'd include that as the "main" copyright holder (i.e. the section > beginning with "Files: *") -- all others become "exceptions". > > Secondly, there's no copyright statement for files © Gabriele Lohmann, > MPI/CNS. Before contacting him, do you have any written statement about > copyright for those files?
Great job! Gabriele is in my Institiute, I will ask her personally about the licensing of her code. > Thirdly, there are some files which do not carry any statement: who owns > their copyright? These files are: > > vista/AddFunc.c > vista/arithm.c > vista/GraphType.c > > I suppose they're © by the odin team, but I need that written somewhere. No, I just re-packaged the original vista by ripping off everything except the source code and added the autotools stuff without much regard for the copyright. > Please, fix these problems, so libvista can enter Debian gracefully :) I will get back to you after talking to Gabriele, thanks, Thies
