Re: Copyright, licences, etc. Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] [Fwd: phpgroupware_0.9.16.012+dfsg-1_i386.changes REJECTED]

[Olivier Berger]

FYI, I have completed my review and the result can be found in the
*.copyright files available in the patch at :
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/phpgroupware/phpgroupware_0.9.16.012+dfsg-1.diff.gz

In short, for licenses, phpgwapi = LGPL + bits of GPL
rest is GPL with bits of LGPL, and sometimes MPL, or BSD may be found
locally...

Best regards,

Le jeudi 13 mars 2008 à 19:15 +0100, Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Le jeudi 13 mars 2008 à 08:11 -0500, Chris Weiss a écrit :
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Olivier Berger
> > >
> > >  -------- Message transféré --------
> > >  De: Joerg Jaspert <address@hidden>
> 
> > >  rejected:
> > >
> > >  ---+++---
> > >  Most of this package is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
> > >  Some parts are licensed differently, e.g. under the GNU LGPL, please see
> > >  the information in the documentation directory of individual modules and 
> > > the
> > >  headers of the source packages.
> > >  +++---+++
> > >
> > >  Sorry, that doesnt work. debian/copyright is *the* single place where
> > >  all the copyright related information has to be placed.
> > >
> > >  [SNIP]
> > >
> > 
> > how detailed does this file need to be?
> 
> Well I'm not so sure... I suppose it should at minimal mention all
> different licences and on which parts they apply.
> 
> There are guidelines here :
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-dreq.en.html#s-copyright
> and in particular here :
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
> 
> I'm currently processing the phpgroupware 0.9.16 code that we want to
> package through various scripts in order to get an idea of the copyright
> notices in all headers of the files, and see what's under GPL, LGPL, and
> others (so far MPL and BSD-likes).
> 
> If you're interested, I will send a summary or the full details
> (including copyright mentions, licences, authors).
> 
> That's something which needs manual review, and it's somehow boring, of
> course ;)
> 
> I hope I'm not duplicating on something which would exist elsewhere...
> maybe you guys had to do it at some point as a requirement of the GNU
> project ?
> In particular, how far does the copyright of the FSF extend, as
> contributors are supposed to be giving up on their own copyright... the
> problem is only with legacy code that was reused from elsewhere, is it ?
> 
> Any ideas on these matters most welcome, of course ;)
> 
> Best regards,
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Olivier BERGER <address@hidden> (*NEW ADDRESS*)
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM / TELECOM & Management SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), 
Evry