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diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bbf7d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of James Ashton's +compface utility, which provides 48x48x1 image compression +and decompression to allow the inclusion of face images within +mail headers using the field name `X-face: '. + +Following the debian policys James Ashton's original package is +split up into several binary debian packages: + + libcompfaceg1-dev - libc6 devel + libcompfaceg1 - libc6 runtime + compface - user tools + +They are all created form a single source package libcompface. + +This package was put together by me, Hakan Ardo +<hakan@debian.org> from the sourcecode I originaly obtained from +ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/faces/compface/compface.tar.Z. Later updates to the +library were found at: + + http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux/compface-1.5.2.tar.gz + +I have applyed the compface patches found in the exmh-1.6.9-2 package: + +compface.patch: +The compface.patch file has a patch that teaches the compface +and uncompface programs how to read .xbm format (X bitmap) files, +instead of the arcane .ikon files it used before. + +And I have made som changes to the Makefile to compile and link the +library sharead added adding support for the Debian package maintenance +scheme, by adding various debian/* files. + + +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: +> > +> >> * Permission is given to distribute these sources, as long as the +> >> * copyright messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged.=20 +> > +> >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 |