license concerns

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Your project appears to have a lot of potential and looks like something
that would be quite useful.  However, a review how the application worked
revealed some licensing concerns I believe you may want to look into.

The provided copyright file with the v0.5 source appears to be nothing more
than a verbatim copy of the GPLv3.  There is no indication of who holds
this copyright.

Source files are missing any indication of the license they are under. 
Guidelines on how this should be done for GPL'd sources can be found here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

Additionally, there appear to be a few files included in the source tree
that don't appear to be attributed to their original copyright owners and
are under different licenses than the gitso project.

== SOURCE FILES ==

* arch/osx/OSXvnc.tar.gz
This appears to be under the GPL v2, but no indication of the copyright
holder. 
Examining the binaries with strings revealed the following copyright
notice, but no indication of which program version or possible origin:

Copyright (C) 1998, Thomas G. Lane

* arch/osx/vncviewer.tar.gz
This appears to be under the GPL v2, but no indication of the copyright
holder.  Examining the binary file with strings appears to indicate that it
is the TightVNC viewer version 1.3.9.

* arch/win32/WinVNC.exe
This appears to be the TightVNC Server, however there is no indication of
the license or attribution of copyright.  Examination of the binary with
strings revealed the following potential copyrights:

 deflate 1.1.4 Copyright 1995-2002 Jean-loup Gailly 
Copyright (C) 1998, Thomas G. Lane

* arch/win32/vncviewer.exe
This appears to be the TightVNC Viewer, however there is no indication of
the license or attribution of copyright.  Examination of the binary with
strings revealed the following potential copyrights:

Copyright (C) 1998, Thomas G. Lane
inflate 1.1.4 Copyright 1995-2002 Mark Adler 
Tight encoding by Constantin Kaplinsky
ZlibHex encoding from TridiaVNC
Zlib encoding from TridiaVNC

* arch/win32/VNCHooks.dll
No indication of copyright or source.  Examination of the binary with
strings revealed no indication of potential copyrights or origin.

== PACKAGES ==

At lease one of the build scripts causes the inclusion of a DLL file that
is not licensed under the GPL and is copyright Microsoft.  There is no
indication of this anywhere else in the project information or licensing.

* msvcp71.dll
File is listed as copyright "Microsoft Corportation. All rights reserved."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jamin.co...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2008 at 4:13

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Some of these concerns are already being worked on for the 0.6 release, some of 
them
are new to me and some were unclear how to resolve.  Your detailed descriptions 
help
to sort out a lot of this for us.  Resolutions to all of these issues should be
included in the next release. Thanks again for the detailed report!

Original comment by gerbe...@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2008 at 5:11

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: OpSys-All, Priority-Critical
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Added COPYING and README files for the accompanying binaries.

Original comment by gerbe...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2009 at 12:56

• Changed state: Fixed