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diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e8119b --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +Extracted from Debian GNU/Linux's package: + +[...] + +Compface - 48x48x1 image compression and decompression +Copyright (c) James Ashton 1990. +Written 89/11/11 + +Feel free to distribute this source at will so long as the above +message and this message are included in full. + +This copyright message dosn't specify whether modified version is allowed, +but the following mail from the author does allow them: + +> From: James Ashton <James.Ashton@syseng.anu.edu.au> +> Subject: Re: Bug#72019: compface not DFSG +> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:48:34 +1100 (EST) +> +> >On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:58:43AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: +> >> Package: compface +> >> Version: 1989.11.11-17.1 +> >> Severity: important +> >> +> >> compface's copyright doesn't grant permission to +> >> distribute modified versions +> > +> >The compface copyright says: +> > +> >Feel free to distribute this source at will so long as the above +> >message and this message are included in full. +> > +> > +> >Which could be interpretated as it is allowed to distribute modified +> >versions of it. James Ashton is the original author, would you care to +> >clairify the matter, mr Ashton? +> +> I don't mind modified versions being distributed. Please included the +> original copyright notices as specified and also prominently note, if +> it is a modified version, the nature and author(s) of the +> modifications. +> -- +> James Ashton VK1XJA System Administrator +> http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~jaa Department of Systems Engineering +> Voice +61 2 6279 8675 Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering +> FAX +61 2 6279 8688 Australian National University +> Email James.Ashton@anu.edu.au Canberra ACT 0200 Australia +> + +Another peoblem with the copyright of this source code is that the +copyright message in the source files and in the readme file is conflicting. +The following mail from the author should clear that up: + +> From: James Ashton <James.Ashton@syseng.anu.edu.au> +> Subject: Re: libcompface license (again) +> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:32:23 +1100 (EST) +> +> >Hi, +> >I'm maintaining the debian pkg of your compface lib, and I've talket to you +> >before about it's license. And now ouer legal people have found another +> >problem. The sourcefiles contains a diffrent copyright notice than the +> >redmefile. They say: +> > + +/* + * Compface - 48x48x1 image compression and decompression + * + * Copyright (c) James Ashton - Sydney University - June 1990. + * + * Written 11th November 1989. + * + * Permission is given to distribute these sources, as long as the + * copyright messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged. + * + * No responsibility is taken for any errors on inaccuracies inherent + * either to the comments or the code of this program, but if reported + * to me, then an attempt will be made to fix them. + */ + +> > +> >The problem is the last part "no monies are exchanged". As you probably=20 +> >know we do allow third party companies to produce debian CDs and sell them. +> >So this statement would inmply that we can't have your libcompface in +> debian +> >at all. +> +> I'm happy to remove the phrase no monies are exchanged' from the +> source and allow distribution as per the README file. Do you need more +> from me than just this email? +> -- +> James Ashton VK1XJA System Administrator +> http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~jaa Department of Systems Engineering +> Voice +61 2 6125 8675 Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering +> FAX +61 2 6125 8660 Australian National University +> Email James.Ashton@anu.edu.au Canberra ACT 0200 Australia |