PCYNLITX and Copyright Issue

2019-07-05 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
Hello, Yesterday I filed RFP for PCYNLITX [1]. Although PCYNLITX is licensed under GPLv3, the upstream applied copyright registration to US and Turkey Copyright offices, as stated in the home page: - An application to the US Copyright office has been performed for the modified version of the

Re: PCYNLITX and Copyright Issue

2019-07-05 Thread David Given
My understanding is that copyright always applies unless explicitly given up via a public domain declaration; registering with a copyright office is an *optional* step which doesn't affect the status of the work --- unregistered works are still copyrighted. The GPL license itself depends on the

Re: Missing source in firefox-esr: EME module

2019-07-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 13:13:26 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:38 AM Mihai Moldovan wrote: > > > I wonder why no one brought it up yet, but here we go: IMHO, > > downloading pre-defined proprietary software should completely > > be disabled/removed in Firefox and the proprietary

Re: Missing source in firefox-esr: EME module

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 5:41 AM Francesco Poli wrote: > Then, the strategy could be similar to [flashplugin-nonfree]: > a package (in Debian contrib) that automatically downloads and install > the non-free module from the upstream distributor, and installs it... IIRC the Debian maintainers of

BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, There are several packages (including GCC and Linux) in Debian that contain files released under several different BSDish licenses that are missing the explicit modification permission. Many of these files contain comments indicating that they likely have been modified. I think that these

Re: Re: PCYNLITX and Copyright Issue

2019-07-05 Thread Bagas Sanjaya
ACK, but upstream said that modified versions of project's source code are subject to US Copyright laws. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara