Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-18 Thread Markus Koschany
On Mon, 17. Mar 20:38 Thorsten Alteholz alteh...@debian.org wrote: [...] Upstream just states that their own license is _similar_ to the Apache license. But this is not true. It is similar to an ancient version. It is by far not similar to what is nowadays called Apache license. But this is

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-18 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Markus Koschany wrote: The whole bug report is bean counting. There is either a problem with wrong licenses and a policy violation or not. Please take a closer took at those files. None of them is licensed under the Apache license. It is completely absurd what you are

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-18 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 12/03/2014 12:37, Thorsten Alteholz a écrit : please add the missing licenses of: jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\contrib\src\resources\hamlet.xml jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\core\package\META-INF\jdom-info.xml jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\core\samples\* (some of them) jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\maven\maven.pom to debian/copyright (or

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-18 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Le 12/03/2014 12:37, Thorsten Alteholz a écrit : please add the missing licenses of: jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\contrib\src\resources\hamlet.xml jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\core\package\META-INF\jdom-info.xml jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\core\samples\* (some of them)

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-17 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Markus, On Sun, 16 Mar 2014, Markus Koschany wrote: please add the missing licenses of: jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\contrib\src\resources\hamlet.xml The text was placed in the public domain hence it is not subject to any copyright and upstream is allowed to put this file under the same license as

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-17 Thread Markus Koschany
On 17.03.2014 13:30, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: [...] The text was placed in the public domain hence it is not subject to any copyright and upstream is allowed to put this file under the same license as stated in upstream's LICENSE.txt. See also debian/copyright paragraph 1, Files: *, License:

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-17 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Markus Koschany wrote: I disagree with your assumptions of the term public domain. The whole reason for granting a work to the public domain is to waive any form of copyright. Public domain works can also be freely used in derivative works, non-free or free. By creating

Bug#741419: missing license in debian/copyright

2014-03-16 Thread Markus Koschany
Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hello, I could not find any hints that the information provided by debian/copyright are not correct. please add the missing licenses of: jdom-JDOM-2.0.5\contrib\src\resources\hamlet.xml The text was placed in the public domain hence it is not subject to any