[Python-modules-commits] r20355 - in packages/python-translitcodec/trunk/debian (copyright)

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    Date: Sunday, February 5, 2012 @ 22:42:28
  Author: spamaps-guest
Revision: 20355

Documenting license of transtab/* files

Modified:
  packages/python-translitcodec/trunk/debian/copyright

Modified: packages/python-translitcodec/trunk/debian/copyright
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--- packages/python-translitcodec/trunk/debian/copyright	2012-02-05 22:39:46 UTC (rev 20354)
+++ packages/python-translitcodec/trunk/debian/copyright	2012-02-05 22:42:28 UTC (rev 20355)
@@ -28,6 +28,115 @@
  OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
  WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 
+Files: transtab/*
+Copyright: 2000, Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk>
+Comment: This code is, as the author describes, an unfinished work, and
+ so the copyright attribution is somewhat loose. However the author
+ has asserted fairly strongly in the email in the License section that
+ the license can be chosen from a broad list, and since the rest of the
+ project is MIT/Expat, this seems to be the logical choice.
+ .
+ The Copyright date is taken from the modified times in
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz
+License: Expat
+ The following email message from the original author asserts the license
+ for the code:
+ .
+ To: Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com>
+ cc: Jason Kirtland <jek at discorporate.us>
+ Subject: Re: Copyright and License status of "transtab" 
+ In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:34:06 PST."
+              <1327908570-sup-2854 at fewbar.com> 
+ X-URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
+ X-image-url: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/markus2-48.jpg
+ Mime-Version: 1.0
+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
+ Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:23:38 +0000
+ From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk>
+ Message-Id: <E1RrpL2-0000pr-Ft at mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>
+ . 
+ Clint Byrum wrote on 2012-01-30 07:34 UTC:
+ > My name is Clint, and I'm working on Packaging the python library
+ > 'translitcodec' for Debian.  In the course of packaging and review, its
+ > become clear that the license status of one directory of the library
+ > is ambiguous. Because Debian follows strict guidelines to both avoid
+ > liability for its developers, and also safeguard user freedom, the
+ > software won't be accepted without first clarifying this.
+ > 
+ > The software in question is available here:
+ > 
+ > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/translitcodec/
+ > 
+ > Jason, you are the attributed "author". It claims to make use of the
+ > transtab data provided by you, Dr. Markus Kuhn.
+ > 
+ > Can either of you provide documentation of the copyright status and/or
+ > license granted to this data?
+ .
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz
+ .
+ Should I ever get around to making another transtab release (an old,
+ unfinished project), I'll try to remember to add the following license
+ text somewhere:
+ .
+   Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- yyyy-mm-dd
+   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/short-license.html
+ .
+ Executive summary: I promise not to sue you.
+ .
+ Hope this helped ...
+ .
+ Markus
+ .
+ -- 
+ Markus Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ || CB3 0FD, Great Britain
+ .
+ The following is the text of the sugested url, retrieved on Sunday,
+ February 5, around 22:28 UTC
+ .
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/short-license.html
+ Short code license
+ .
+ If you have reached this web page because you found its URL included as a
+ license-reference comment in a short piece of published computer software
+ source code by its author(s), next to their name, as in, for example,
+ .
+   Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- 1999-12-31
+   License: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/short-license.html
+ .
+ then you can assume the following:
+ .
+ This code was published by its author(s) as an easily reusable piece of free
+ software, for example to demonstrate some particular programming practice. It
+ is likely too short or obvious to skilled programmers to fall under, or
+ deserve, the protection of copyright legislation. It is also likely to be
+ useless on its own, unless verified and integrated into a larger program by an
+ experienced software engineer, and therefore no consumer protection, warranty
+ or liability rights apply either. Therefore, its author(s) refused to disfigure
+ its appearance with a lengthy copyright license text.
+ .
+ Nevertheless, overly cautious lawyers (possibly as part of a “due diligence
+ exercise”) occasionally contact authors of such short code snippets for a
+ formal copyright license.
+ .
+ Therefore, the author(s) agree(s) to clarify that, at the user’s choice, the
+ code can be used under any of the following licenses, or any compatible with
+ them:
+ .
+   • Apache License, 2.0
+   • BSD license
+   • GNU General Public License (GPL)
+   • GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License (LGPL)
+   • MIT license
+   • Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
+   • Common Development and Distribution License
+   • Eclipse Public License
+ .
+ Markus Kuhn
+ .
+ created 2011-02-15 – last modified 2011-02-15 – http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
+
 Files: debian/*
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