Romain Beauxis wrote: > Hi all ! > > Thanks to the great work from Sebastien Noel, initial debian packages are on > the way ! See: > http://blog.rastageeks.org/spip.php?article7 > > However, the deep copyright check revealed that not all the files are > released > under the GPL. See the debian copyright file attached. > > There are few licenses/files that are problematic for debian: > > >> The files in cuckoo/ have the following license: >> >> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or >> modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public >> License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either >> version 2.1 of the License. >> >> Any modifications that may break backward compatibility are strictly >> prohibited. >> > > I see this clause has being sort of moot, since it mixes licensing with > run-time things.. After all, would any dev pretend he always knows he isn't > breaking some old stuff ? > > This license is the copyright's holder choice, but it clearly doesn't qualify > as "free" for the debian project, hence would have to be placed in non-free > or simply removed from the package... > > The extra "Any modifications ..." statement was a mistake. I have emoved it from the hg version. >> The file srcconf.c has the following license: >> >> This software is released under CDDL 1.0 source license for operating >> systems that have their full source code available under the BSD or CDDL >> licenses. >> > > I don't understand this sentence... > > And, some file don't have a license header, hence their license being the > main > COPYING claim from the tarball, but have warnings like this: > I will take a look at this. >> This source code, its compiled object code, and its associated data sets >> are copyright (C) 1998-1998 ESS Technology, Inc. This source code and its >> associated data sets are trade secrets of ESS Technology, Inc. >> > > This is of course sort of frightening, although I don't think it has a legal > meaning -- or if so that it's not debian's fault but 4Front's .. :) > There are some 3rd party drivers that have copyright statements of the original author (the manufacturer of the sound card or chipset). We have got their permission to redistribute the code. However we are not in position to remove the original copyright statements. If this is a problem then such drivers should be excluded from Debian. After all they are drivers for old hardware that has been out of production for 5 to 10 years.
Best regards, Hannu _______________________________________________ oss-devel mailing list oss-devel@mailman.opensound.com http://mailman.opensound.com/mailman/listinfo/oss-devel
