source code written by monkey

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've packaged the program btnx [0], but my prospecitve sponsor encountered a license problem: in btnx's source there is one file which was not written by btnx's upstream itself (revoco.c). Debian policy: Note that under international

Re: source code written by monkey

Hi Philipp, On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:38:51 +0200 Philipp Hübner wrote: I've packaged the program btnx [0], but my prospecitve sponsor encountered a license problem: in btnx's source there is one file which was not written by btnx's upstream itself (revoco.c). Debian policy: Note that under

Re: source code written by monkey

I forget which package, but there is software in Debian (main, accepted by ftp-masters) written by a bonobo. Of course there has been a thread about this on debian-legal, please search the archives and read it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: source code written by monkey

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Wise schrieb: I forget which package, but there is software in Debian (main, accepted by ftp-masters) written by a bonobo. Of course there has been a thread about this on debian-legal, please search the archives and read it. I searched the

Re: source code written by monkey

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Evgeni, thank you for the information. I tried to ask Edgar too, and once also uploaded revoco to NEW. Joerg has REJECTED it, with the following statement: [...] I gave up revoco then, if you have time, you can try larting Edgar, but I

Re: source code written by monkey

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Philipp Hübner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives, but couldn't find anything. Some ideas for keywords or thread names I could use? I realise now it was not on debian-legal but on planet.d.o and it was about this package exactly:

Re: source code written by monkey

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:16:12 +0200 Philipp Hübner wrote: Does this mean btnx has to go into non-free and btnx-config into contrib? I'd probably strip the revoco part and put the rest of btnx into main (if this is possible). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: source code written by monkey

Philipp Hübner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this mean btnx has to go into non-free and btnx-config into contrib? A package for which we have no explicit license to redistribute cannot go into any of main, contrib, or non-free. It simply cannot be legally redistributed at all without that