[sugar] AUTHORS and COPYING

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti
Wed Jan 9 06:31:07 EST 2008


On Jan 9, 2008 12:10 PM, Jani Monoses <jani at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> not all sugar and related projects include up-to date data on authors
> and licensing. The former can be inferred from git logs but the latter
> requires going through all source files.
>
> In particular sugar-artwork includes a copy of the GPL, but the sources
> contain an LGPL and a BSD style licensed file as well.
>
> I think the MaMaMedia projects also lacked licensing info last I looked.
>
> Can each module author please make sure their own projects are correctly
> carrying a complete copyright notice and if possible an AUTHORS file?
>
> For getting packages in distributions the legal implications should be
> clear and lack of copyright notices in upstream sources is blocking
> uploads to public archives.

Thanks a lot for reporting this Jany. Can you please open a ticket for
each module which have problems? That would be really helpful!

Marco



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