Hello Peter,<br>I am reviewing <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652648">erlang-skerl</a> and the issue I am facing is similar to what Ville-Pekka reports. In this case, some of the c source/header files and erlang source files are without license headers.<br>
<br>Could you ask upstream to include license headers in the source code files of both packages / or confirm the licensing of those files?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tom Callaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com">tcallawa@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 01/13/2011 04:17 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:<br>
> 1. All other relevant source files have a license header except<br>
> include/bitcask.hrl and c_src/erl_nif_compat.h. I'm not sure if they<br>
> constitute a "work" in terms of copyright and should have licenses. What<br>
> do you think?<br>
<br>
</div>I think those files should have license headers. At a minimum, we should<br>
confirm the licensing with upstream.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> 2. This is, to me, the more important question. There is a .pdf file and<br>
> some .png files in the doc directory. To me these seem like works which<br>
> are under copyright, but I can't find a license for them anywhere in the<br>
> source tree. Does this make them non-free and non-redistributable?<br>
<br>
</div>If we don't know the license, we have to assume we have no license.<br>
However, we should make every effort to ask upstream about the license<br>
terms of those files.<br>
<br>
In cases where a general license statement is given somewhere, like in<br>
README, we can assume it applies to these sorts of files as well, but in<br>
this case where there is no license attribution, we either need to get<br>
it from upstream (aka the copyright holder) or assume we have no license.<br>
<br>
~tom<br>
<br>
==<br>
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