> > > >after searching for a copyright, I sent him an email about it: > > > > > > >> There is not copyright on pCFITSIO. No guaranties either :-) > > > > > > >so I was wondering, if such kind of 'NO COPYRIGHT' can be included in > > > >debian ? > > > > > > Sure. It's public domain. I'd write a small blurb into the copyright > > > file that says that you contacted the author for clarification, quotes > > > the email and states that this has been interpreted that as placing the > > > software in the PD, then sign the entire thing to testify that you have > > > actually done all that stuff. > > > > > > Simon > > > > hello, > > I'm not having any response from the author. > > so I've grepped copyright in the files. and get the follow > > > > grep -i copyright * > > config.c:Copyright (c) 2000, BeOpen.com. > > config.c:Copyright (c) 1995-2000, Corporation for National Research > > Initiatives. > > config.c:Copyright (c) 1990-1995, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. > > config.c:See the file "Misc/COPYRIGHT" for information on usage and > > fitsio.h:Copyright (Unpublished--all rights reserved under the copyright > > laws of > > fitsio.h:of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. No > > copyright is > > fitsio.h:copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty appears in all > > copies. > > fitsio.html:Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more > > information. > > pcfitsio_wrap.c: * Portions Copyright (c) 1995-1998 > > > > And I've put on the bottom of the email the part of the code which contains > > the word ``copyright''. > > Now the fact is that I do not know if such kind of copyright on this files > > will arleady > > not allowing us to push this software on debian. So if already restrict it, > > then there is no point > > to bother the author. Does this files restricts it? if not I do have to > > re-contact the author of pcfitsio ! > I'm pretty confident that you could justify that this is free > software, but it might require some work. Ideally this would would > have already been done, and made available by a single coherent and > comprehensive statement provided by upstream. I've re-launched many times the author without having any response from him.
> > cat config.c > > /* Generated automatically from > > /scisoft/bin/../python/lib/python2.1/config/config.c.in by makesetup. */ > > /* -*- C -*- *********************************************** > > Copyright (c) 2000, BeOpen.com. > > Copyright (c) 1995-2000, Corporation for National Research > > Initiatives. > > Copyright (c) 1990-1995, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. > > All rights reserved. > > > > See the file "Misc/COPYRIGHT" for information on usage and > Do you have such a file? nop ! > > cat fitsio.h > > #include <numarray/arrayobject.h> > > > > /* The FITSIO software was written by William Pence at the High > > Energy */ > > /* Astrophysic Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at the NASA > > */ > > /* Goddard Space Flight Center. > > */ > > /* > > > > Copyright (Unpublished--all rights reserved under the copyright laws > > of > > the United States), U.S. Government as represented by the > > Administrator > > of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. No copyright is > > claimed in the United States under Title 17, U.S. Code. > This is very good; it is public domain (although the way it is phrased > seems poor) this is the fitsio.h which is also provided by: libcfitsio-dev so I do not feel that this file is so so related to pcfitsio. As I told pcfitsio is a python wrapper arround cfitsio. And cfitsio is itself a rewrite of fitsio is C. > > Permission to freely use, copy, modify, and distribute this software > > and its documentation without fee is hereby granted, provided that > > this > > copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty appears in all copies. > This is strange, again, since PD software doesn't need a license > statement. But its okay I guess. libcfitsio is already distributed with debian. So it looks more than ok : ) > > cat pcfitsio_wrap.c > > /* > > * FILE : pcfitsio_wrap.c > > * > > * This file was automatically generated by : > > * Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) > > * Version 1.1 (Patch 5) > > * > > * Portions Copyright (c) 1995-1998 > > * The University of Utah and The Regents of the University of > > California. > > * Permission is granted to distribute this file in any manner > > provided > > * this notice remains intact. > > * > > * Do not make changes to this file--changes will be lost! > > * > > */ > You're going to have to find the input SWIG file, and make sure that > it grants permission to both modify and distribute, and also try to > make sure that SWIG comes with some statement to the effect of "swig > output is under a liberal license ... " As what I read, this should not be the problem: http://www.swig.org/copyright.html I do not know that much about swig, but I think that the main software written by the author is: pcfitsio.c which is a 71 lines file. and there is no copyright statment at all except that the author told me that there is no COPYRIGHT by email. I hope that we can integrate this small piece os software. > Justin Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]