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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:54:31PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 14:14 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard 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:
>>
>> >>> +Copyright: cycling'74;
>> >>> +License: NONE
>> >>> + FIXME
>> >
>> >I'm not sure (Hans please correct me if I'm wrong), but these would 
>> >be reimplementations of the documentation of the equivalent Max/MSP 
>> >plugins, so copyright would not apply?
>>
>> The text says "based on" (if I recall correctly) which generally is 
>> no escape from earlier ownership, I believe.
>
>"Based on" as in the sense that they looked at the Max/MSP help patches 
>while making the cyclone help patches. The code or files were not 
>copied, but rather the ideas were imitated.  I was involved in the 
>writing of that documentation.

Sounds fine, then.


>> >>> +
>> >>> +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.
>>
>>
>> NB!  Beware also of the stripped authors I mentioned in my previous 
>> post (which you quoted but did not comment on, Felipe - I genereally 
>> recommend to quote only relevant email parts, i.e. parts you comment 
>> on).
>
>The license is the Tcl/Tk License, which is also was Pd used to use.
>the pddpserver.tcl file is also covered by the Tcl/Tk License.

Good.

Please note how I renamed the license shortname to be a single word 
similar to all(!) examples in DEP5 (even if not explicitly mandated).

Since the license is not on the explicit list, I chose to use a leading 
"other-" to ensure that when maybe later it is introduced, we do verify 
explicitly that we indeed use same license as officially added (i.e. I 
deliberately do not follow same rationale as for for new sections - 
which (in newer discussions than reflected in rev. 135) discourages 
leading "X-" in those cases).


  - Jonas

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