[SCM] pd-cyclone/master: Rewrite copyright file: Main licensing changed; Authors dropped; Lack of licensing added!!!

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:43:25AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:23, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> 
>wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:14, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 09:17:33AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 07:14, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +Files: ./bin/pddp/pddpserver.tcl
>>>>>> +Copyright: 1996-1997, Sun Microsystems
>>>>>> +License: NONE
>>>>>> + FIXME
>>>>
>>>> This looks like a weird BSD, Hans please check it out.
>>>
>>> Where did you see that?
>>>
>>> I found _no_ licensing related to that copyright statement.
>>
>> The referenced CVS address (which is broken because sourceforge has 
>> changed its dns scheme) has a license for the project.
>
>For the record:
>http://tclhttpd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tclhttpd/tclhttpd/license.terms?revision=1.4&view=markup

The grandfathered licensing terms include this:

> The authors hereby grant permission [...], provided that existing 
> copyright notices are retained in all copies and that this notice is 
> included verbatim in any distributions.

We therefore need to involve upstream and request them to include above 
licensing, as their granted license was violated when the header was 
stripped, and they therefore cannot pass on a license to us (or anyone 
else) for that file.


  - Jonas

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