An update, I was able to get the author's permission to indicate BSD-3 license for the "templates" code. He has not yet updated the source archives on netlib, but I have added a LICENSE to the Siconos repository that embeds this code, citing permission by personal communication. I am still hoping they will update the archive, but otherwise I could forward the email granting permission to this mailing list (it is quite general) in order to have a public record, but I am not sure if that's necessary.
Steve On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Stephen Sinclair <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>
