On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:08:13PM +0000, Tristan Santore wrote: > Petr and Josh, > > Spot made the following change in the guidelines. > > ***** > > 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. > > ***** > > #!/bin/sh > > 2 # ---------------------------------------------------- > > 3 # Nico Golde <nico@xxxxxxxxx> > > 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
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