From ebaa7db1b045938c4c2b0c8b28e4249680616eba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:16:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added upcoming clarification of copyright and license aspiration --- cdrskin/README | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/cdrskin/README b/cdrskin/README index f8076ad..0f7da54 100644 --- a/cdrskin/README +++ b/cdrskin/README @@ -1,19 +1,23 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ libburn.pykix.org scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Installation instructions at about line 50. First the legal stuff: +Installation instructions at about line 60. First the legal stuff: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -This all is under GPL. Wether it can become LGPL is currently very unclear. -(So for now see explanation and GPL reference at the end of this text) +This all is under GPL. +(See GPL reference, our clarification and commitment at the end of this text) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +Based on and sub project of: +libburn.pykix.org +By Mario Danic and Thomas Schmitt +Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Thomas Schmitt +libburn.pykix.org is inspired by and in other components still containing +parts of Libburn. By Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens - -Mario Danic , Luke Biddell , -Anant Narayanan , Thomas Schmitt -Copyright (C) 2006 Mario Danic, Luke Biddell, Anant Narayanan, Thomas Schmitt +See toplevel README for an overview of the current copyright situation in +libburn.pykix.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My thanks to the above authors (except myself, of course) for making the @@ -32,6 +36,8 @@ compatibility wrapper which allows to use some libburn features from the command line. Interested users of cdrecord are invited to participate in the development of cdrskin. Contact: scdbackup@gmx.net or libburn-hackers@pykix.org . +We will keep copyright narrow but will of course acknowledge valuable +contributions in a due way. Important : @@ -293,7 +299,7 @@ a command line that would do the trick, contact me or libburn.pykix.org . I myself am not into audio. So libburn-hackers@pykix.org might be the best address for requests and bug reports. -Lorenzo also reports of a frontend tool which he italked into burning +Lorenzo also reports of a frontend tool which he talked into burning automatically extracted files via cdrskin: http://www.bigpaul.org/burn/ which in its configuration file burn.conf would need something like this @@ -331,20 +337,6 @@ It will not read startup files, will abort on option dev_translation= , will not have a fifo buffer, and will not be able to put out help texts or debugging messages. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -It is my understanding that you may put a binary of unchanged cdrskin on any -suitable system if you only tell the user that the source is available for -free in the internet. Search engines will find it. Better than any URL here. - -If you link to the libraries or if you make changes in our source, you will -currently have to release your own programs under GPL and nothing else, i fear. -As it looks no single one of us currently has the right to issue any other -license. -You may submit source changes which affect our standalone binaries and if -they get included you may distribute binaries derived from our new code base. - -signed: Thomas Schmitt (and his understanding of GPL), author of this README. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -360,3 +352,35 @@ signed: Thomas Schmitt (and his understanding of GPL), author of this README. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +cdrskin is currently copyright Thomas Schmitt only. +It adopts the following commitment by the toplevel copyright holders: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +We, the copyright holders, agree on the interpretation that +dynamical linking of our libraries constitutes "use of" and +not "derivation from" our work in the sense of GPL, provided +those libraries are compiled from our unaltered code. + +Thus you may link our libraries dynamically with applications +which are not under GPL. You may distribute our libraries and +application tools in binary form, if you fulfill the usual +condition of GPL to offer a copy of the source code -altered +or unaltered- under GPL. + +We ask you politely to use our work in open source spirit +and with the due reference to the entire open source community. + +If there should really arise the case where above clarification +does not suffice to fulfill a clear and neat request in open source +spirit that would otherwise be declined for mere formal reasons, +only in that case we will duely consider to issue a special license +covering only that special case. +It is the open source idea of responsible freedom which will be +decisive and you will have to prove that you exhausted all own +means to qualify for GPL. + +For now we are firmly committed to maintain one single license: GPL. + +signed for cdrskin: Thomas Schmitt