I can try. There are 10 authors listed without email addresses, and the code dates back to the 90s, but I am sure some of them are still alive. I will search for email addresses and try to make contact, but in the expectation that it is difficult, I was wondering if there was any netlib-specific experience with this kind of thing on Debian Science. I will also ask on Debian Legal in the case that I get no reply.
thanks, Steve On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Anton Gladky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > is it possible to contact the authors/copyright holders of those files? > > Regards > > Anton > > > 2018-04-05 18:02 GMT+02:00 Stephen Sinclair <[email protected]>: >> Hello science team, >> >> The software I am packaging embeds dftemplates and dctemplates from netlib: >> >> http://www.netlib.org/templates/index.html >> >> It is clear from the context that this is code to accompany a book and >> intended to be used by the readers. However, I cannot find an >> explicit copyright, either on the site or in the book. I think it is >> public domain but I do not see this written anywhere. I think this is >> possibly a common issue with netlib code, how can I proceed? Is it >> safe to put Public-Domain in debian/copyright? >> >> regards, >> Steve >>
