Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > Several octave-forge packages have been updated to Debian unstable and are > waiting in the NEW queue [1] for ftp-master approval. > > In building the Debian packages, we found some licensing problems. We are > maintaining a TODO file with the list of issues, available in our SVN > repository [2] (you will find below the current version of this file). Some > of these problems have been already reported and discussed in octave-dev. > > We decided to go ahead and upload the packages despite of the above, > essentially because we believe these are not real problems, just cases > needing clarifications. > > We thank the octave-dev developers in advance for fixing the issues listed. > > [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html > [2] > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-octave/octave-forge-pkgs/TODO?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 > > Rafael > If the issues are license clarification, then only the original author can correspond.. It will therefore be extremely difficult to address this list of clarifications. However, it has always been assumed that short, uncopyrighted functions in octave-forge were public domain. Also if the packages include a COPYING file which that are obliged to with the Octave package manager, then doesn't that determine th licensing conditions for the unlicensed files?
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