[Sugar-devel] Licensing problem in sugar-base

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 01:39, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> sugar-base 0.84.0 has (compared to 0.82.2) added a few files below
> /src/sugar/dispatch. Most of them contains no copyright information, but
> __init__.py - the only file small enough that it is arguable not
> possible to claim copyright for its own content - says the following:

Yeah, Makefile.am wasn't listing license.txt as having to be included
in the tarball. Has been fixed and will get in a new one today.

This is the missing file:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-base/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/sugar/dispatch/license.txt

Do you think we'll be ok once it's included in the tarball?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> """Multi-consumer multi-producer dispatching mechanism
>
> Originally based on pydispatch (BSD) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyDispatcher/2.0.1
> See license.txt for original license.
>
> Heavily modified for Django's purposes.
> """
>
> IANAL but even if above is not a copyright according to american laws
> (it does not contain "Copyright:" or "©", it does refer to a license
> that is not included with the source of sugar-base.
>
> If sugar-base have borrowed code from another project that does not add
> copyright and licensing headers to all individual files but states such
> info in a central file, then you shall preserve said copyright and
> licensing info, either by including a similar central file or (better
> IMHO) adding the info to the actual files it concerns.
>
> If you believe no code is "contaminated" by other copyright holders or
> licenses, then I recommend you remove headers like above.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
>
> P.S.
>
> Ideal for me (and Debian and its derivatives) would be if you could
> tighten this issue and release a new tarball, soonish...
>
> - --
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