[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#952603: python-tinyalign: license of buildwheels.sh is CC0

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon 06 Apr 2020 at 08:34AM -07, tony mancill wrote:

> The buildwheels.sh in tinyalign is a derived work (there are multiple
> non-trivial modifications) from the upstream build-wheels.sh in
> pypa/python-manylinux-demo project, so I'm not sure that it's correct to
> say that it is necessarily licensed under the CC0.  That is, since
> CC0 is a "no rights reserved" license, what is prevent the author of the
> derived work from releasing under MIT without attribution?
>
> I am basing that on my reading of the CC0 [1] and its FAQ [2],
> specifically the statement:
>
>    CC0 is a useful tool for clarifying that you do not claim
>    copyright in a work anywhere in the world.
>
> IANAL and I'm not trying to bikeshed the license question, but it seems
> to me that works derived from CC0-licensed works might be different in
> this regard.  I patched the debian/copyright in [3] to refer to the
> original work and its CC0 license, but stopped short of indicating that
> the file in tinyalign is licensed under the CC0 because that seems to
> impinge upon the rights of author of the derived work.
>
> Does that address your concerns with the copyright for this file?

Makes sense to me.  Thanks!

-- 
Sean Whitton
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