[pkg-nvidia-devel] r1116 - in /packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian: changelog copyright
rra at users.alioth.debian.org
rra at users.alioth.debian.org
Sun Jun 13 05:21:43 UTC 2010
Author: rra
Date: Sun Jun 13 05:21:39 2010
New Revision: 1116
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/?sc=1&rev=1116
Log:
Some minor additional debian/copyright improvements
* Add some additional information to debian/copyright about NVIDIA's
interpretation of their licensing terms and the use of the GPL for
code derived from LGPL code.
Modified:
packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/changelog
packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/copyright
Modified: packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=1116&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/changelog (original)
+++ packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/changelog Sun Jun 13 05:21:39 2010
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
nvidia-xconfig (195.36.24-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
-
- * TODO: check debian/copyright
[ Andreas Beckmann ]
* Team change: switch Uploaders from Randall to Russ.
@@ -14,6 +12,11 @@
* Switch debian/copyright to DEP-5 format and add more license statements
found in the source.
* Add Vcs-* URLs.
+
+ [ Russ Allbery ]
+ * Add some additional information to debian/copyright about NVIDIA's
+ interpretation of their licensing terms and the use of the GPL for
+ code derived from LGPL code.
-- Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:24:22 +0200
Modified: packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/copyright
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/copyright?rev=1116&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/copyright (original)
+++ packages/nvidia-xconfig/trunk/debian/copyright Sun Jun 13 05:21:39 2010
@@ -10,32 +10,40 @@
Files: nvidia-cfg.h
Copyright: (c) 2004 NVIDIA Corp. All rights reserved.
License: other
- * NOTICE TO USER: The source code is copyrighted under U.S. and
- * international laws. NVIDIA, Corp. of Santa Clara, California owns
- * the copyright and as design patents pending on the design and
- * interface of the NV chips. Users and possessors of this source
- * code are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright
- * and design patent license to use this code in individual and
- * commercial software.
- *
- * Any use of this source code must include, in the user documenta-
- * tion and internal comments to the code, notices to the end user
- * as follows:
- *
- * Copyright (c) 2004 NVIDIA Corp. NVIDIA design patents pending in
- * the U.S. and foreign countries.
- *
- * NVIDIA CORP. MAKES NO REPRESENTATION ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF
- * THIS SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
- * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. NVIDIA, CORP. DISCLAIMS
- * ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOURCE CODE, INCLUDING ALL
- * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
- * PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL NVIDIA, CORP. BE LIABLE
- * FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
- * OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR
- * PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
- * TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
- * PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOURCE CODE.
+ NOTICE TO USER: The source code is copyrighted under U.S. and
+ international laws. NVIDIA, Corp. of Santa Clara, California owns
+ the copyright and as design patents pending on the design and
+ interface of the NV chips. Users and possessors of this source
+ code are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright
+ and design patent license to use this code in individual and
+ commercial software.
+ .
+ Any use of this source code must include, in the user documenta-
+ tion and internal comments to the code, notices to the end user
+ as follows:
+ .
+ Copyright (c) 2004 NVIDIA Corp. NVIDIA design patents pending in
+ the U.S. and foreign countries.
+ .
+ NVIDIA CORP. MAKES NO REPRESENTATION ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF
+ THIS SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
+ EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. NVIDIA, CORP. DISCLAIMS
+ ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOURCE CODE, INCLUDING ALL
+ IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
+ PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL NVIDIA, CORP. BE LIABLE
+ FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
+ OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR
+ PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
+ TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
+ PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOURCE CODE.
+ .
+ As clarified by experience with other pakcages, NVIDIA applies a very
+ generous interpretation of the term "use" in this license:
+ .
+ GPL licensing note -- nVidia is allowing a liberal interpretation of the
+ documentation restriction above, to merely say that this nVidia's
+ copyright and disclaimer should be included with all code derived from
+ this source.
Files: XF86Config-parser/*
Copyright: (c) 1997 Metro Link Incorporated
@@ -44,55 +52,80 @@
Files: XF86Config-parser/DRI.c
Copyright: 1999 Precision Insight, Inc., Cedar Park, Texas. All Rights Reserved.
-License: other-Precision
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
- * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
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- * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
- * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
- * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
+License: Expat-Precision
+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+ copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+ to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+ the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+ and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+ Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ .
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+ Software.
+ .
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+ IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+ PRECISION INSIGHT AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
+ OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION 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: XF86Config-parser/Extensions.c
Copyright: 2004 Red Hat Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina. All Rights Reserved.
-License: other-RedHat
- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
- * a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
- * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
- * without limitation on the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
- * publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
- * and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
- * subject to the following conditions:
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- * next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial
- * portions of the Software.
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- * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
- * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
- * NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL RED HAT AND/OR THEIR SUPPLIERS
- * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
- * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
- * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
- * SOFTWARE.
+License: Expat-RedHat
+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+ a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+ "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+ without limitation on the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
+ publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
+ and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
+ subject to the following conditions:
+ .
+ The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
+ next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial
+ portions of the Software.
+ .
+ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+ EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+ MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+ NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL RED HAT AND/OR THEIR SUPPLIERS
+ BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
+ ACTION 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: XF86Config-parser/Generate.c
Copyright: (C) 2005 NVIDIA Corporation
1999-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
2002 Red Hat, Inc.
-License: GPL-2+ and other-GNU-unknown
+License: GPL-2+ and other-GPL
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+ Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ option) any later version.
+ .
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
+ Public License for more details.
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+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License
+ version 2 can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
+ .
+ This file is also derived from work covered by the following license:
+ .
+ This software may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU
+ library public license.
+ .
+ For the purposes of this distribution, we invoke the terms of the GNU
+ Library General Public License allowing work under that license to be
+ distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License instead.
Files: XF86Config-parser/Merge.c
Copyright: (c) 1997 Metro Link Incorporated
@@ -112,79 +145,66 @@
License: GPL-2+
License: GPL-2+
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it
- and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
- version.
- .
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
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- warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
- details.
- .
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
- License along with this package; if not, write to the Free
- Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
- Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
- .
- On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
- License version 2 can be found in the file
- `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+ Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ option) any later version.
+ .
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
+ Public License for more details.
+ .
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License
+ version 2 can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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- * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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- * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
- * THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
- * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
- * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
- * SOFTWARE.
- *
- * Except as contained in this notice, the name of the Metro Link shall not be
- * used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings
- * in this Software without prior written authorization from Metro Link.
+ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+ copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+ to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+ the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+ and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
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+ IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+ THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
+ WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
+ OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
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+ in this Software without prior written authorization from Metro Link.
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