Hi Alan and Andrew
The shapelib files from Ordnance Survey are my doing. You are right Alan that
they are under licence rather than in the public domain, however, I used them
specifically because they were available under an open type licence. I did look
hard and ordnance survey was the best source of files under any kind of open
licence. I didn't find anything with a LGPL licence, so unless someone wants to
generate maps of their own then we will almost certainly have to live with
different licences here. I would have thought that the details I put in the
folder with the files would suffice for the credit required by the licence. In
fact this was the licence info provided to me. However I can see you might want
to add details to the copyright file. I can do this, but don't want to cause a
clash with Andrew's work.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: "Alan W. Irwin" <[email protected]>
Sent: 18/09/2014 17:31
To: "Andrew Ross" <[email protected]>
Cc: "PLplot development list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Debian bug 761057
On 2014-09-18 14:13+0100 Andrew Ross wrote:
>
> I've completely reformatted the debian copyright file (using the new
> machine readable format) and done some grepping for rogue files. I've
> attached a copy and I think this identified all the non-LGPL files (
> parts of files) apart from the additional libraries shipped in lib
> (which I also need to deal with and have an outstanding bug report).
I have not looked at the list in general, but I
notice you missed some files, e.g., src/mt19937ar.[ch] and
cmake/epa_build/ExternalProject.cmake which are clearly licensed under
a non-LGPL license. Note those files are found by the find command I
suggested,
find . -type f |grep -v .git \
|xargs grep -li copyright| xargs grep -Li "public license"
so I am a bit puzzled why they are missing from your list. Of
course, the above command does not discriminate between GPL
and LGPL, but I guess you have that covered with a slight variation
of the above command.
Also, your file states that the shapelib files are in the public
domain. However, if you look at data/ss/os_open_conditions.txt, the
conditions at
<http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/docs/os-opendata-licence.pdf>
appear to apply, i.e., those files are licensed under the "Open
Government" license which apparently requires some changes to our
Copyright file to conform to that license.
Alan
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and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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