[med-svn] r81 - trunk/packages/treeviewx/trunk/debian

[Charles Plessy]

Author: charles-guest
Date: 2006-07-10 12:54:50 +0000 (Mon, 10 Jul 2006)
New Revision: 81

Modified:
   trunk/packages/treeviewx/trunk/debian/copyright
Log:
Discussion about the licences

Modified: trunk/packages/treeviewx/trunk/debian/copyright
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/treeviewx/trunk/debian/copyright	2006-07-09 08:13:41 UTC (rev 80)
+++ trunk/packages/treeviewx/trunk/debian/copyright	2006-07-10 12:54:50 UTC (rev 81)
@@ -23,9 +23,36 @@
    along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA
 
-TreeView X uses the Nexus Class Library (Copyright (C) 1999 Paul O.
-Lewis) and the TreeLib (Copyright (C) 2001 Roderic D. M. Page). Both
-are released under the GNU General Public License.
+TreeView X is statically linked to the Nexus Class Library (Copyright (C) 1999
+Paul O.  Lewis), which released under the GNU General Public License.
 
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Information for the users of the source package:
+
+TreeView X has been released by its author under the GNU GPL (see COPYING), but
+most of its files use a header which places them under the GNU Library GPL
+(LGPL). The author of TreeView X confirmed to the maintainer of this package
+that his intention is to have TreeView X released under the GPL. Therefore, as
+permitted the clause 3 of the LGPL, the licence of these files is changed to
+the GPL through the patch in the following file:
+debian/patches/60_LGPLtoGPL.dpatch
+
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General
+Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2'.
+
+Some files which are part of TreeView X - namely ntree.h, ntree.cpp and
+lcaquery.cpp - have no copyright notice. The author of TreeView X confirmed to
+the maintainer of this package that he is the copyright holder for them.
+Therefore, they are distributed under the terms of the COPYING file, which is
+the GNU GPL.
+
+Please note that the files under the TreeLib directory are part of TreeView X,
+as they have never been released as an independent library. The ncl-2.0
+directory contains the Nexus Class Library (Copyright (C) 1999 Paul O.  Lewis),
+which is released under the GNU General Public License, and is an independent
+work.
+