Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Hendrik Weimer [110514 08:41]: > > Both of the packages claim to be GPL'ed as per COPYING, and I wonder whether > > this is acceptable for Debian. Probably it is, as ax25-apps is in > > main. > > While the GPL strongly recommends putting copyright notices in each > source file, it does not requi

Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-13 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Michael Tautschnig writes: > Both of the packages claim to be GPL'ed as per COPYING, and I wonder whether > this is acceptable for Debian. Probably it is, as ax25-apps is in > main. While the GPL strongly recommends putting copyright notices in each source file, it does not require to do so. In

Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
I'd suggest contacting ax25-apps upstream to clarify the situation: http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Ax25-apps Also, should ax_emergency_listen just be merged into ax25-apps? Then there would be no need for code duplication. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Guido Trentalancia wrote: > I'll just make an hypotesis. The origin is not very important as long as > the original author doesn't care about claiming it. Being GNU GPL (this > is clearly stated in COPYRIGHT), there is no warranty in any case. If > there is no war

Re: How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-13 Thread Guido Trentalancia
Hello again Michael ! First of all, thanks again very much for all your support and help. On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 22:35 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Dear debian-legal, > > While reviewing the ax_emergency_listen package [1] I found that several > source > files lack both copyright and licen

How to use (free!) sources of other projects without copyright/license information in file?

2011-05-13 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Dear debian-legal, While reviewing the ax_emergency_listen package [1] I found that several source files lack both copyright and license information. The reason for this lack, however, is that they were taken verbatim from ax25-apps *where there is no such information in source files*, as upstream