[Fedora-legal-list] Regarding ghc-failure

[lakshminaras2002 at gmail.com]

Thanks Tom.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 11/21/2010 10:21 AM, lakshminaras2002 at gmail.com wrote:
> > There is no explicit disclaimer in the source package.
>
> Please send the upstream copyright holder/author this message:
>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> I am working on packaging ghc-failure for Fedora (a popular Linux
> distribution), and have noticed that it is marked as being in the Public
> Domain. This is a tricky legal concept in many parts of the world. In
> Fedora, we try to ensure that we have legal permission to use everything
> within it, and that everything is under a Free Software License.
>
> Since the ability of a copyright holder to abandon their copyright on a
> work and place it into the Public Domain is only legally possible in
> certain jurisdictions, there are a few things you can do to help us
> out here.
>
> 1) If you just want anyone, anywhere, to have the ability to do whatever
> they would like with these software works, then please consider giving
> permission for them to be used under the Creative Commons Zero license.
> This license is structured to act as a practical Public Domain
> declaration wherever that is permitted by law, and an extremely
> permissive license everywhere else.
>
> An overview of the CC-0 license is here:
> http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
>
> The actual CC-0 legal text is here:
> http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
>
> If you choose to exercise this option, please reply to this email with
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> We will archive that email in the package (with your email address
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>
> 2) If you do not wish to relicense these works under CC-0, consider
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>
> A copy of the MIT license can be found here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense
>
> If you choose to exercise this option, please reply to this email with
> the following:
>
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> * Permission to use and distribute the work under the MIT license terms
>
> 3) If neither of the two previous options is acceptable to you, and you
> really just want to put the work into the Public Domain, we need you to
> provide us with the following information:
>
> * A statement affirming that you are the author and copyright holder of
> the aforementioned software works.
> * A statement which indicates your citizenship and geographical location
> (country is sufficient) where these works were created.
> * A statement declaring that you are placing these works (explicitly by
> name) into the Public Domain, and are abandoning your copyright on them.
>
> For example:
>
> My name is John Doe, and I am the author and copyright holder of
> Foo. I am a United States citizen, and this code was written in the
> United States. I hereby place the Foo software into the public
> domain. You are free to modify the package, distribute modified
> versions, etc.
>
> *****
>
> Please note: Individuals in most of Europe (with the notable exception
> of the UK) can almost NEVER fully abandon their copyright, thus any
> public domain declarations from those individuals are invalid, and we
> are left with no license on that work. This means that we will have no
> permission to use, modify, or distribute it.
>
> Specifically, this is known to be true for France, Germany, and Poland.
> If you are a citizen of one of these countries (or in Europe), or were
> located in one of these countries when you created this work, please
> consider using one of the previously described license options.
>
> Thanks in advance! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
> ask.
>



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Regards
Lakshmi Narasimhan T V
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