Re: dxsamples: New upstream version 4.4.0 available
On 12/11/13 11:27, Simon McVittie wrote: On 12/11/13 10:43, Graham Inggs wrote: [...] * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that [...] IANAL so I have a question about this sentence fragment. If the copyright notice must appear in all copies, included modified ones, does that mean that your modifications belong to VIS? Thanks in advance er Envite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5286ac29.9080...@rolamasao.org
Re: dxsamples: New upstream version 4.4.0 available
Hi Debian Legal The previous maintainer of dxsamples felt that the license of some of the examples added in more recent versions made it unsuitable for distribution in Debian. Below is the license of one of the new files, util/biorad-pic. I would appreciate your opinion on this matter please. The full source (7.8MB) can be downloaded after filling in a registration form from opendx.org [1], or from one of the other distributions that package OpenDX samples, e.g. Fedora [2], FreeBSD, or Gentoo. The file should have the md5 sum e8f43722ca0a66282608bded7c0e4f93. Regards Graham [1] http://www.opendx.org/dlSource.html [2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/dx-samples/dxsamples-4.4.0.tar.gz/ /* * (C) Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. 2002 * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that * both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in * supporting documentation, and that the name of VIS not be * used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the * software without specific prior written permission. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * VIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING * ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL VIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT * OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS * OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE * OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52820655.8050...@nerve.org.za
Re: dxsamples: New upstream version 4.4.0 available
On 12/11/13 10:43, Graham Inggs wrote: The previous maintainer of dxsamples felt that the license of some of the examples added in more recent versions made it unsuitable for distribution in Debian. I don't see a license problem with what you quoted. It would be nice if the copyright holder had used a more common form of the MIT-style license (the Expat license is the closest thing there is to a canonical MIT/X11 license, and is the one in the OSI license list), but it appears to be DFSG-compliant and GPL-compatible. The maintainer will have to copy this license into debian/copyright in order to satisfy both Debian policy and the ... in supporting documentation ... clause. * (C) Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. 2002 * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that * both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in * supporting documentation, and that the name of VIS not be * used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the * software without specific prior written permission. This is the first paragraph of what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT calls Old Style with legal disclaimer, with s/M.I.T./VIS/ and the last sentence (mini-warranty-disclaimer) removed. Seems fine to me. * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This disclaimer of warranty looks fine to me, and is similar to the one recommended for use with the GPL. * VIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING * ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL VIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT * OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS * OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE * OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. This is back to what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT calls Old Style with legal disclaimer. Also looks fine to me. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5282109c.2090...@debian.org
Re: dxsamples: New upstream version 4.4.0 available
Thanks for clearing that up. I will include the license in debian/copyright before uploading the new version. Quoting response from Simon McVittie s...@debian.org [1] below for the bug report. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/11/msg00024.html On 12/11/13 10:43, Graham Inggs wrote: The previous maintainer of dxsamples felt that the license of some of the examples added in more recent versions made it unsuitable for distribution in Debian. I don't see a license problem with what you quoted. It would be nice if the copyright holder had used a more common form of the MIT-style license (the Expat license is the closest thing there is to a canonical MIT/X11 license, and is the one in the OSI license list), but it appears to be DFSG-compliant and GPL-compatible. The maintainer will have to copy this license into debian/copyright in order to satisfy both Debian policy and the ... in supporting documentation ... clause. * (C) Visualization and Imagery Solutions, Inc. 2002 * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that * both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in * supporting documentation, and that the name of VIS not be * used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the * software without specific prior written permission. This is the first paragraph of what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT calls Old Style with legal disclaimer, with s/M.I.T./VIS/ and the last sentence (mini-warranty-disclaimer) removed. Seems fine to me. * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS-IS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This disclaimer of warranty looks fine to me, and is similar to the one recommended for use with the GPL. * VIS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING * ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR * PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL VIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT * OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS * OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE * OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE * OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. This is back to what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT calls Old Style with legal disclaimer. Also looks fine to me. S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/528217cc@nerve.org.za
