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Unclear licensing #3

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Hello,
I'm packaging pyspatialite for Debian, and I have problems with the license of 
this software.

In the tarball, there is a LICENSE file containing the zlib/libpng license, 
with copyright 2004-2007 Gerhard Häring.

PKG-INFO contains Lokkju Brennr as author, and doesn't mention Gerhard Häring 
at all.

The homepage says the license is MIT, and the only contributor is Lokkju Brennr.

Would you please clarify the situation?

Thanks,
David

Original issue reported on code.google.com by d.pale...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2011 at 7:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'll try to update it to all be a bit more clear...

Google Code hosting doesn't/didn't offer a zlib license option - MIT was the 
closest.

The entire pyspatialite package is based on pysqlite, which was written by 
Gerhard.  Though some of that code is itself cribbed from other places, I chose 
to leave alone files that I didn't modify the source of, and only add an extra 
copyright line to the files I created from scratch, or that I modified (see, 
for instance, setup.py).

If you have suggestions on how to make the situation clearer, I'd be happy to 
do what I can - I would *love* to have this package available in debian/ubuntu 
packaging systems.

Original comment by lok...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2011 at 10:38