[Aide] AIDE Copyright Clause

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Tue Feb 26 15:39:31 EET 2008


I agree with Rami's suggestion. I'll wait until Mike and Marc respond 
and add the copyright statements to all source files.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg

Rami Lehti wrote:
> I think the proper lines are
>
> Copyright 1999-2002 by Rami Lehti <rammer at cs.tut.fi> and Pablo 
> Virolainen <pablo at cs.tut.fi>
>
> Copyright 2003-2008 by Richard van den Berg <richard at vdberg.org>, Rami 
> Lehti <rammer at ipi.fi>, Pablo Virolainen <pablo at ipi.fi>
>
> And perhaps Mike and Marc can also claim some copyright as well.
> I think some of your patches are included as well.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Rami Lehti
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>
> Marc Haber wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Debian Quality Assurance has pointed me to the fact that the Debian
>> packaging debian/copyright file doesn't hold a proper copyright
>> statement such as "Copyright YYYY by John Doe <john at doe.com>".
>>
>> However, the current aide release doesn't have a clear copyright
>> statement as well.
>>
>> What do you want me to write in debian/copyright, which currently has
>> the following contents:
>>
>> ----
>> This package was debianized by Mike Markley mike at markley.org on
>> Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:57:06 -0500.
>>
>> It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.cs.tut.fi/pub/src/gnu/ and is
>> currently available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide
>>
>> Upstream Authors: Rami Lehti <rammer at cs.tut.fi>
>>                   Pablo Virolainen <pablo at cs.tut.fi>
>>
>> Debian packaging is done by Mike Markley and Marc Haber.
>>
>> Copyright:
>>
>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>> (at your option) any later version.
>>
>> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>> GNU General Public License for more details.
>>
>> A copy of the GNU General Public License, version 2, can be found in
>> /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL or in the COPYING file included with the
>> source.
>> ----
>>
>> It might also be a good idea to have a "proper" copyright statement in
>> your sources as well.
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Marc
>>
>>     
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