[Sugar-devel] Licensing problem in sugar-base

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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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:

"""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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