[Pkg-scicomp-devel] ufc_1.1.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Johannes Ring johannr at simula.no
Mon May 25 10:18:14 UTC 2009


Hi,

I am close to fix the missing licenses/copyright issues with UFC but I am
wondering how to deal with the file doc/manual/eps/insertion.eps from the
upstream source [1]. The file is generated by ESP Ghostscript as stated in
the header:

  %%Creator: ESP Ghostscript 81504 (epswrite)

Only part of the file is copyrighted by artofcode LLC:

  % This copyright applies to everything between here and the %%EndProlog:
  % Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.

No license is specified, however, ESP Ghostscript is AFAIK licensed under
GNU GPL v2 (see [2]). Is this the right license to specify for
insertion.eps? Can I add something like this to debian/copyright:

Files: doc/manual/eps/insertion.eps
Copyright: (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA
License: GPL-2

Any comments? Please tell me if I should direct this question somewhere else.

[1]: http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/ufc/v1.1/ufc-1.1.2.tar.gz
[2]: ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/ghostscript/8.15.4/espgs-8.15.4-source.tar.bz2

Best regards,

Johannes

On Sun, May 17, 2009 19:38, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Hi maintainer,
>
> REJECT: missing licenses / copyright holders.
>
> You claim that the source is all in the public domain, however I several
> missing licenses and copyright holders.  Including these:
>
> ---
>
> File: Poisson.form
> # Copyright (C) 2004-2007 Anders Logg (logg at simula.no)
> # Licensed under the GNU GPL Version 2
>
> File: insertion.eps
> % This copyright applies to everything between here and the %%EndProlog:
> % Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
>
> File: algorithm.sty% Copyright -- 1994 Peter Williams
> % This style file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> % modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> % License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> % version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> File: makedist
> Copyright (C) Anders Logg 2004-2009
> Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or any later version
>
> File: build.py
> __author__ = "Johan Hake (hake at simula.no)"
> __copyright__ = "Copyright (C) 2009 Johan Hake"
> __license__  = "GNU LGPL Version 2.1"
>
>
> ---
>
> bye,
> stew
>
>
>
>
> ===
>
> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> concerns.
>
>





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