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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:35:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard A Nelson <email address hidden>
To: Andrew Saunders <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#248853: 3270: 5250 emulation code, all rights reserved
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Andrew Saunders wrote:
> Package: 3270
> Version: all
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 2.3
>
> See the license terms here:
>
> http://
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> The copyright holder of the 5250 emulation code appears to have
> granted no permissions whatsoever; there is just the bare copyright
> declaration on its own. Since copyright law works on the basis that
> pretty much all rights are reserved (barring fair use etc) unless
> expressly stated otherwise, the 5250 emulation code and all code that
> could be considered to have been derived from it are most definitely
> not legally distributable by Debian.
>
> Similarly, the portions of code copyrighted by Georgia Tech Research
> Corporation are not distributable either, since the only right
> explicitly granted is that to "public use" (whatever that means).
>
> IMO, the 3270 packages should be removed from the archive immediately.
Sigh... did you not notice from which pool this came ?
I'm all for constructive criticism; something I can take to upstream -
and he has done some work to improve the situation based upon earlier
conversations. However, knee-jerk responces (like this) will be simply
routed to /dev/null.
If you wish to be helpful, I'll be happy to blast the copyright info
to debian-legal for further critique. If you wish to just blather,
consider this a *plonk*.
--
Rick Nelson
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sex! It's a long term investment ... it's the work itself that is
satisfying!
-- Craig Brozefsky