This package was debianized by Helen Faulkner on Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:46:19 +0100. It was downloaded from http://labplot.sourceforge.net/ Upstream Author: Stephen Gerlach Copyright for everything except the included netCDF library: Copyright (C) Stephen Gerlach This package 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; version 2 dated June, 1991. This package 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. Copyright for the included netCDF library: Copyright 1993-1999 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata Portions of this software were developed by the Unidata Program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Access and use of this software shall impose the following obligations and understandings on the user. The user is granted the right, without any fee or cost, to use, copy, modify, alter, enhance and distribute this software, and any derivative works thereof, and its supporting documentation for any purpose whatsoever, provided that this entire notice appears in all copies of the software, derivative works and supporting documentation. Further, UCAR requests that the user credit UCAR/Unidata in any publications that result from the use of this software or in any product that includes this software. The names UCAR and/or Unidata, however, may not be used in any advertising or publicity to endorse or promote any products or commercial entity unless specific written permission is obtained from UCAR/Unidata. The user also understands that UCAR/Unidata is not obligated to provide the user with any support, consulting, training or assistance of any kind with regard to the use, operation and performance of this software nor to provide the user with any updates, revisions, new versions or "bug fixes." THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY UCAR/UNIDATA "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL UCAR/UNIDATA BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACCESS, USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. Copyright for the cephes library (details): This email from Steve Moshier, the copyright owner of cephes, to Helen Faulkner (Debian maintainer of labplot), and other interested parties (labplot and grace authors, grace maintainer and labplot sponsor), confirms that we may release labplot with cephes licensed under the GPL. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: licensing of cephes Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:48:02 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Moshier To: Helen Faulkner CC: twerner@debian.org, Ben Burton , evgeny@stambulchik.net, Stefan Gerlach References: <41D14354.4040506@yahoo.co.uk> <41D17BE3.3020708@yahoo.co.uk> <41D1FB8D.6030002@yahoo.co.uk> <41D2D8EF.9010702@yahoo.co.uk> <41D41B2E.80508@yahoo.co.uk> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Helen Faulkner wrote: > http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines This is fine with me. To acknowedge your terms explicily, how about augmenting the permission to read something like the following -- This software is derived from the Cephes Math Library. It is incorporated herein, and licensed in accordance with DFSG, by permission of the author. If you are trying to get me to suggest a specific form for your license, then from looking at Debian programs such as dpkg it seems to me that you would find the GPL to be appropriate and the permission statement could reference one of the GPL documents instead of DFSG. Alternatively, the packages you have been talking about distributing with Debian presumably come with some sort of licenses and it would make sense to propose those licenses.