Re: [OctDev] missing copyright statements

[Paul K. <pki...@us...>]

On Apr 23, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> Since we are on subject of copyright.
>
> I was looking for files in octave-forge
> with missing clear copyright statement.
> There are quite a few of those.

You can use 'cvs log' to find out who is responsible for entering 
individual files in the repository.

> Here some of them:
>
> main/vrml/
> 	most files (Etienne Grossmann  <et...@is...>)
> 	(some files do not have even author name)
>
> main/general/
> 	deref.cc (?)

Paul Kienzle (this will be purged after the next release)

> main/control/
> 	feedback.m (Ben Sapp <bs...@la...>)
>
> main/image/
> 	imginfo.m (Etienne Grossmann  <et...@is...>)
>
> 	imread.m (Andy Adler)
>
> 	imwrite.m (Andy Adler)
>
> 	testimio.m

Paul Kienzle

> main/irsa/
> 	irsa_actcore.m ( Joerg Huber ?)

already has a copyright statement

> main/linear-algebra/
> 	GramSchmidt.cc (P.R. Nienhuis <106...@co...>?)
>
> main/optim/
> 	cdiff.m (?)

Etienne Grossmann

> 	wsolve.m (Paul Kienzle ?)

Paul Kienzle

> main/signal/
> 	flattopwin.m (Paul Kienzle ?)

Paul Kienzle

> 	freqs_plot.m (Paul Kienzle ?)

Julius Smith

> 	ellipdemo.m (Paul Kienzle ?)

Paulo Neis

> main/symbolic/
> 	probably_prime.cc (?)

Paul Kienzle

>
> main/specfun/
> 	expint.f (D.E. AMOS)
> 	Why do we need this file there at all?

removed.

>
> main/struct/
> 	struct.cc (Etienne Grossmann  <et...@is...>)
>
> main/time/
> 	datesplit.m  (Bill Denney <bi...@gi...>)
>
> extra/ver20
> 	most files (Paul Kienzle)

FSF does not insist on copyright statements short files.

> I think something has to be done about it.

Strictly speaking the copyright defaults to BSD according to the top 
level COPYING file.  This probably isn't possible to do, and certainly 
not so simply as I have done it.

admin/get_authors will list the uncopyrighted files.  Unfortunately it 
doesn't properly filter out all public domain files or short programs.  
Anyone care to
fix it?

In trying to figure out what exact text I should use to disclaim 
copyright I found this advice on a Python mailing list:

	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/051531.html

Here's what the Creative Commons uses as their public domain disclosure:

	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/



Thanks,

	- Paul