Alexandros Theodotou transcribed 2.6K bytes: > Hi, > > Re: our discussion on IRC: > > There are at least two files in the GNUnet website source code that > have unclear licenses, rendering them proprietary. > https://git.gnunet.org/www.git/tree/i18nfix.py
This is mostly Taler SAS and work done by whoever you find via git blame on it (Florian Dold most of it, other fixes by me). > https://git.gnunet.org/www.git/tree/template.py Same as above, but adding Marcello, Christian Grothoff, and tg(x). > These files have no license or copyright notices. They simply say that > "this file is in the public domain". In at least European countries, > saying that "this file is in the public domain" is not enough to put > something in the public domain. You have to explicitly use a license > such as CC0 or WTFPL, otherwise the files are "all rights reserved". My position is we can make it 0BSD or CC0. WTFPL is mostly nonsense here. > I'm not really sure you can assume that these files are GPL'd either, > otherwise they'd have a copyright notice. So in effect, these files are > proprietary. I can't copy them and use them in my (A)GPL project. > > For such files, if you want to be lax, the GNU package maintainer > guidelines generally recommend this: > """ > Copyright (C) 2019 <name> > > Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, > are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright > notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, > without any warranty. > """ Would be alright with me, if no one disagrees I'll make the changes in an appropriate timeframe (beginning of September). > Can we add appropriate headers or footers to the files please? > _______________________________________________ > GNUnet-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
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