Follow-up Comment #7, task #7729 (project administration): Well, I have done a scan of the code in the jahshaka and openlibs module.
there is some code with no copyright assignment on it. there is code with no author or other infomation. there are numerous media files in there. bitmaps and other things with no copyright attribution. Here are more dependancies : boost-devel libboost-filesystem1.33.1_1.33.1-9 libboost-python1.33.1_1.33.1-9 libboost-regex1.33.1_1.33.1-9 libboost-thread1.33.1_1.33.1-9 glew-devel/libglew1_1.3.4-5 ffmpeg-devel libcaca-devel libxml2-devel python-devel OpenEXR-devel qt-devel zlib-devel SDL-devel mlt-devel Here is a list of the copyrights that I could have extract from the jahshaka and openlibs project. I think it is the start of a "authors file". I am concerned with the fact that the copyright of these files is not clear. How can "jahshaka" or the "jahshaka project" be copyright holders? How can files just be wildly copied into the project? I am working on removing all non-attributed files and finding the sources of the libs that were pasted in. My project will resolve the issues this way : 1. remove all media files and shaders scripts. I will provide scripts to download the needed unattributed media files if need from other sources. 2. remove all unattributed sources. 3. look for the cvs source of all files if there are unattributed ones. things that look as part of the project or that were edited in the project will be looked into more. I can contact the source forge authors. 4. I will remove all references to "jah" and "shaka" and all that stuff from the project. I will also remove the bitmaps and any artwork. The program should use only free media files that have copyright attributes and no relation to the old project. 5. I am working on a new automake script that will not have too many subobjects. Only the plugins will be treated as subprojects for building. 6. I will remove all libs that were pasted into the cvs source and use autoconf dependencies for managing those libs. 7. The upload of my changes, I can give you them first officially when the copyright has been added to all the changed files. I will give you however a snapshot of my work in progress so that you know that I am really doing serious work on this. This is still in progress. here is my suggested boilerplate to add into the files that had gpl and lgpl copyright notices. the old notices read like this : Copyright (C) 2000-2006 VM Inc. Released under the LGPL. For more information, see http://www.openlibraries.org. or this : The Jahshaka Project Copyright (C) 2000-2006 VM Inc. Released under the GNU General Public License my replacement will look like this : /* Copyright (C) 2008 James Michael DuPont This file is part of the FreeMediaTools Project. This code is based on the openlibraries.sf.net and jahshakafx.sf.net/jahshaka.sf.net projects. The license has been changed in accordance with the LGPL/GPL to GPLv3 Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Editopia Inc. Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Visual Media Fx Inc. Copyright (C) 2005-2006 VM Inc. Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Jahshaka project The FreeMediaTools is free/libre software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The FreeMediaTools is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with the FreeMediaTools; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7729> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
