On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:08:13PM +0000, Tristan Santore wrote:
Petr and Josh,
Spot made the following change in the guidelines.
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Works which are clearly marked as being in the Public Domain, and for
which no evidence is known to contradict this statement, are treated in
Fedora as being in the Public Domain, on the grounds that the intentions
of the original creator are reflected by such a use, even if due to
regional issues, it may not have been possible for the original creator
to fully abandon all of their their copyrights on the work and place it
fully into the Public Domain. If you believe that a work in Fedora which
is marked as being in the Public Domain is actually available under a
copyright license, please inform us of this fact with details, and we
will immediately investigate the claim.
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#!/bin/sh
2 # ----------------------------------------------------
3 # Nico Golde <nico(a)ngolde.de>
4 # License: do whatever you want with this code
5 # Purpose: locate new queries for the ii irc client
6 # ----------------------------------------------------
I interpret the above statement just as such. Technically, I assume you
could even re-license it on the original copyright holders behalf, as
the copyright holder invites you to do with it as you please.
Of course, Spot is the one who strangles the legal folks in his spare
time. So, he should be able to choke out a more elaborate answer, as
there is probably some US legal sillyness, which prevents people from
using common sense.
I should add further, the above mentioned changes in the guidelines were
made with the approval of the board and the legal geniuses.
Regards,
Tristan
Tristan,
this sounds reasonable.
However, after a brief discussion with upstream, I decided not to
ship query.sh at the moment as it's just optional documentation.
The original author mentioned he might relicense it to WTFPL
in the future.
I'll re-add it if spot confirms it to be Public domain or if
we decide to include it as a special case in our licenses list
(like some other packages, e.g. diffmark).
Regards,
Petr