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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 15:32 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

All of the code in that library, borrowed or not, is under the same
license: the Tcl/Tk license.  Is it still necessary to include multiple
copies of the Tcl/Tk license as long as we have the copyrights listed in
debian/copyright?

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