octave-dev

[OctDev] missing copyright statements

[Dmitri A. S. <das...@gm...>]

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.

Here some of them:

main/vrml/
	most files (Etienne Grossmann  <et...@is...>)
	(some files do not have even author name)

main/general/
	deref.cc (?)

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

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

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

main/optim/
	cdiff.m (?)
	wsolve.m (Paul Kienzle ?)

main/signal/
	flattopwin.m (Paul Kienzle ?)
	freqs_plot.m (Paul Kienzle ?)
	ellipdemo.m (Paul Kienzle ?)

main/symbolic/
	probably_prime.cc (?)

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

main/struct/
	struct.cc (Etienne Grossmann  <et...@is...>)

main/time/
	datesplit.m  (Bill Denney <bi...@gi...>)

extra/ver20
	most files (Paul Kienzle)


I think something has to be done about it.

Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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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

[OctDev] Re: missing copyright statements

[Russell S. <r.s...@un...>]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:40:43AM -0400, Bill Denney wrote:
>=20
> Sorry about that.  I agree to license this and all my contributions to=20
> octave and octave forge as GPL'd code.  (This should prevent problems if =
I=20
> unexpectedly pass away as was previously mentioned.)
>=20

I think I missed that previous "mention". What were the problems?
Surely code openly released by the copyright holder without an
explicit license becomes "public domain" and can be used in any way by
whomever as they see fit.

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[OctDev] Re: missing copyright statements

[Dmitri A. S. <das...@gm...>]

Russell Standish wrote:
...
> Surely code openly released by the copyright holder without an
> explicit license becomes "public domain" and can be used in any way by
> whomever as they see fit.
> 

This is, generally speaking, definitely not the case in USA (see e.g.:
http://creativecommons.org/about/legal/cultivating).

As Paul Kienzle pointed out to me, in case of octave-forge, indeed any
non-claimed work become BSD-licensed or public domain.

 From the file COPYING:

<<<
...
  Any files not otherwise covered by a license
are assumed to be covered by a BSD-style license (see COPYING.BSD) if the
author is listed or in the public domain if no author is listed.  Files which
link with octave are implicitly covered by the GPL (see COPYING.GPL).
 >>>


Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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[OctDev] Re: missing copyright statements

[Andy A. <ad...@si...>]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> I was looking for files in octave-forge
> with missing clear copyright statement.
>
> main/image/
> 	imread.m (Andy Adler)
> 	imwrite.m (Andy Adler)

Fixed. Thanks for doing this work.
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Andy Adler