Sergei Golovan <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Scott! > >On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Scott Kitterman ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Review thanks to one of our trainees. Unfortunately this package has >to be >> rejected. The licensing is unclear on several files. >> >> Neil Walker is the author of those files and not mentioned in >debian/copyright >> and there is no indication of the license he intended for the files: >> >> tclex-1.2a1.orig/examples/pascal/pascal.tcl:# Author : Neil Walker >> tclex-1.2a1.orig/examples/strip/strip.tcl:# Author : Neil Walker > >I don't see why these files should bear another copyright. They are >examples written specifically for tcLex, not that they are borrowed >from some other software.
Should/shouldn't doesn't matter. They do. They are a creative work that, absent information to the contrary, belongs to their author. >> >> The files RE80.c/RE81.C/RE82.c appear to be modifications of files >taken from >> tcl, but the licensing and copyright information about the original >files >> appears to be missing. > >RE82.c is not a modification. It's just a wrapper which calls original >Tcl functions. > >RE80.c and RE81.c are indeed modifications. I'll try to contact the >author and clarify the license with him. > >Cheers! Please check on the examples too. Scott K _______________________________________________ Pkg-tcltk-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-tcltk-devel
