csound manual

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Wed Jun 30 16:02:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:24:11AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:23, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:43:22PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm sorry if I'm being annoying with this thing, but I'm trying to
>>> really understand the issue here.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 20:49, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We only have detailed copyright information for the few scripts we
>>>>>>> already have documented. What do you propose to do? Expand the Andres
>>>>>>> Cabrera and others into the 35 or so names (and others)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whatever it is that you believe makes this package DFSG-free, document
>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Above you argue to me that the concrete names are not the important
>>>>>> part, but the story is.  Do not explain to me, but to the world.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. I believe you are confusing copyright assignment with
>>>>> DFSG-freeness. The license is GFDL with no cover texts, so it is DFSG free.
>>>>> Copyright years and names are a different matter.
>>>>
>>>> They go together: Only the copyright holder can rightfully grant a
>>>> license.  So if copyright holders are not properly accounted for, licensing
>>>> is bogus!
>>>
>>> So your point is that, if we do not know exactly who wrote what, we need
>>> to find out a way to make sure all contributors have made the software
>>> available under the advertised license?
>>
>> Almost.
>>
>> If, as I understand from you, we are unable to get an explicit statement
>> from upstream who is copyright holders of all parts of their distributed
>> sources,
>
>This is true.
>
>> then we should do the second best of listing who it might be, and
>> documenting why the information is vague - and we should then discuss with
>> debian-legal at lists.debian.org if such info is acceptable.
>
>OK. I'll update debian/copyright with this info. It will be a brief
>summary of the history page, and a list of all known contributors.

Excellent.


  - Jonas

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