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Extracted from Debian GNU/Linux's package:
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[...]
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Compface - 48x48x1 image compression and decompression
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Copyright (c) James Ashton 1990.
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Written 89/11/11
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Feel free to distribute this source at will so long as the above
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message and this message are included in full.
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This copyright message dosn't specify whether modified version is allowed,
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but the following mail from the author does allow them:
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> From: James Ashton <James.Ashton@syseng.anu.edu.au>
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> Subject: Re: Bug#72019: compface not DFSG
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> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:48:34 +1100 (EST)
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>
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> >On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:58:43AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
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> >> Package: compface
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> >> Version: 1989.11.11-17.1
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> >> Severity: important
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> >>
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> >> compface's copyright doesn't grant permission to
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> >> distribute modified versions
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> >
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> >The compface copyright says:
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> >
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> >Feel free to distribute this source at will so long as the above
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> >message and this message are included in full.
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> >
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> >
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> >Which could be interpretated as it is allowed to distribute modified
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> >versions of it. James Ashton is the original author, would you care to
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> >clairify the matter, mr Ashton?
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>
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> I don't mind modified versions being distributed. Please included the
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> original copyright notices as specified and also prominently note, if
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> it is a modified version, the nature and author(s) of the
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> modifications.
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> --
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> James Ashton VK1XJA System Administrator
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> http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~jaa Department of Systems Engineering
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> Voice +61 2 6279 8675 Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
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> FAX +61 2 6279 8688 Australian National University
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> Email James.Ashton@anu.edu.au Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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>
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Another peoblem with the copyright of this source code is that the
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copyright message in the source files and in the readme file is conflicting.
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The following mail from the author should clear that up:
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> From: James Ashton <James.Ashton@syseng.anu.edu.au>
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> Subject: Re: libcompface license (again)
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> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:32:23 +1100 (EST)
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>
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> >Hi,
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> >I'm maintaining the debian pkg of your compface lib, and I've talket to you
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> >before about it's license. And now ouer legal people have found another
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> >problem. The sourcefiles contains a diffrent copyright notice than the
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> >redmefile. They say:
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> >
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> >> * Permission is given to distribute these sources, as long as the
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> >> * copyright messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged.=20
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> >
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> >The problem is the last part "no monies are exchanged". As you probably=20
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> >know we do allow third party companies to produce debian CDs and sell them.
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> >So this statement would inmply that we can't have your libcompface in
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> debian
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> >at all.
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>
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> I'm happy to remove the phrase no monies are exchanged' from the
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> source and allow distribution as per the README file. Do you need more
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> from me than just this email?
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> --
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> James Ashton VK1XJA System Administrator
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> http://wwwsyseng.anu.edu.au/~jaa Department of Systems Engineering
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> Voice +61 2 6125 8675 Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
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> FAX +61 2 6125 8660 Australian National University
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> Email James.Ashton@anu.edu.au Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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