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Hi Thomas,<br>
<br>
Here's the mail from upstream about the license 'issue'. The source for
a demo site contains the following in footer.inc.php:<br>
<div id="page-footer"><br>
<hr /><br>
<br>
<div class="copyright"><br>
Copyright © 2005 by Heino H. Gehlsen. All rights reserved.<br>
</div><br>
<br>
<div class=""><br>
(<a
href=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/pear/Net_NNTP/docs/examples/demo/">"http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/pear/Net_NNTP/docs/examples/demo/"</a>>source
code</a>)<br>
</div><br>
<br>
</div><br>
<br>
The rest of the package is obviously W3C licensed. <br>
<br>
I've asked upstream about this. I guess the following reply makes it OK
to continue without the hassle of a separate dfsg source?<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help,<br>
<br>
Jan-Pascal<br>
<br>
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<td>Re: Packaging Net:NNTP for Debian: small license issue</td>
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<td>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:40:00 +0200</td>
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<td>Heino H. Gehlsen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:heino@gehlsen.dk"><heino@gehlsen.dk></a></td>
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<td>Jan-Pascal van Best <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:janpascal@vanbest.org"><janpascal@vanbest.org></a></td>
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<pre>Hi Jan-Pascal,
As a Debian user I find you request hard to reject ;-)
Would it be acceptable to just add the following to the current license notice?:
"This work is distributed under the W3CŪ Software License [1] 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. [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231">http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231</a>", which is used by W3C.
or perhaps a shorter and less legal version:
"This work is distributed under the <a href=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231">"http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231"</a>>W3CŪ Software License</a> in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind."
I don't have the time for a package update/release at the moment, but for now I'll happily promise you that there will be absolutely no objections from me, should my contribution to PEAR end up as part of any free software distribution. I therefor grant you and any present and future Debian developer permission to redistribute any past, present or future releases of the mentioned module containing modified versions of the mentioned file and and any other file part of the demo. I even encourage modifying or replacing the mentioned file so it somehow mentions the Debian project.
Should you be interested I'll even grant you maintainer rights the the module in PEAR
Kind regards,
Heino H. Gehlsen
Den 12/08/2011 kl. 12.52 skrev Jan-Pascal van Best:
> Hi Heino,
>
> I'm packaging your Net:NNTP PEAR module for use in Debian. It's a
> dependency of a web app I'm also packaging. While looking over the code in
> Net:NNTP, I noticed that the file 'docs/examples/demo/footer.inc.php'
> contains the fragment:
>
> <div class="copyright">
> Copyright © 2005 by Heino H. Gehlsen. All rights reserved.
> </div>
>
> This would mean it would be impossible to distribute this file. Since tha
> package is licensed under the W3C license, could you please change the
> notice in footer.inc.php to mention the W3C or some open source licence?
> That would help a lot in getting Net:NNTP into the Debian distribution.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jan-Pascal
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