Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480724 --- Comment #18 from Mark Johnson <johnsonm@xxxxxxxxx> 2009-03-05 16:34:17 EDT --- (In reply to comment #17) > The original public domain work is Public Domain. A modified, or derived work, > can be under any license that the new author of the work wants. Since Public > Domain is not a license, but the absence of a license (or if it helps you wrap > your brain around it, the granting of all possible rights), it doesn't matter. Say there exists a source code file within pjp's djbdns-1.05.1.tar.gz that is identical to version in DJB's djbdns-1.05.tar.gz available at http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz. Are you saying that if that file is obtained from pjp's djbdns-1.05.1.tar.gz, the terms of the GPL apply if that file, and only that file, are incorporated in a further derived work? > As to removing DJB's copyright notice, DJB did that. It would be nice to > reference his message in which he took that action. DJB did not make this tarball available: http://pjp.dgplug.org/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.1.tar.gz which is a modified version his original djbdns-1.05 with a new README file that does not have his original copyright statement (But does have a copy of the GPL v3 in COPYING). Since pjp did, I think it would be prudent to also reference this URL and / or the statement found there relevant to djbdns in future releases: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html Otherwise, I think somebody could get the idea that DJB released djbdns under the GPL, which is not the case. Also, if the License is intended to be GPLv2+, should COPYING really include v3? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review