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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:59:14PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 15:32 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> 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?

Maybe if you can suggest an alternative interpretation of "provided that 
existing copyright notices are retained in all copies".

I can only come up with one interpretation, which means the licensing 
upstream passed to us is bogus, since they lost _their_ license!


  - Jonas

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