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Dear Friends,
Recently I wrote an article about riot see https://itsfoss.com/riot-desktop/ and https://itsfoss.com/riot-desktop/#comments
While I was away a colleague shared the licenses under which it is done. In the Debian world, all packages have to have a copyright file as a matter of policy so the terms and conditions are clearly stated under.
See https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/
Just to share as an example, here's one from a simple GUI-based text-editor I use sometimes -
/usr/share/doc/leafpad$ cat copyright
Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0
Upstream-Name: leafpad
Upstream-Contact: Tarot Osuji <tarot@freeshell.org>, <tarot@sdf.lonestar.org>
Source: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
X-Upstream-Bugs: <tarot@sdf.lonestar.org>
Comment:
See also
http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/leafpad
https://launchpad.net/~tarot
Files: *
Copyright:
2004-2010 Tarot Osujia <tarot@freeshell.org>
License: GPL-2+
Files: src/gtksourceiter.c src/gtksourceiter.h
Copyright:
2000-2002 Paolo Maggi <paolo@gnome.org>
2002-2003 Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen|@|xs4all.nl>
License: LGPL-2+
Files: po/*
Copyright:
2004-2009 Lucas Vieites <lucas@codexion.com>
2004 Alan Kelon Oliveira de Moraes <alankelon@yahoo.com.br>
2004 Artem Vakhitov <temcat@mail.ru>
2004 Carlos Z.F. Liu <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
2004 David Rosal <davidrr@users.sourceforge.net>
2004 Isak Savo <iso01001@student.mdh.se>
2004 Lech Jankovski <godgard@gmail.com>
2004 Petr Vysloužil <evyslouz@volny.cz>
2004 Tarot Osuji <tarot@sdf.lonestar.org>
2004 Vijay Durairaj <vjd81@yahoo.com>
2005-2006 Stavros Giannouris <stavrosg2002@freemail.gr>
2005-2006 Yavor Doganov <yavor@doganov.org>
2005 Alessio D'Ascanio <g3ntaro@gmail.com>
2005 kaya oğuz <kaya@kuzeykutbu.org>
2005 Michal Wrobel <wrobel@task.gda.pl>
2005 OLS3 <ols3@lxer.idv.tw>
2005 Petr Chabada <leafpad_chabada_sk>
2005 Yo'av Moshe <black_jesus@myrealbox.com>
2006-2008 Kevin Patrick Scannell <scannell@SLU.EDU>
2006 Seo Sanghyeon <sanxiyn@gmail.com>
2006 Wouter Van Hemel <wouter-oss@publica.duodecim.org>
2007-2009 Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>
2007 Reviczky Ádám János <reviczky@freemail.hu>
2007 Youri Bulka <jblk@icmail.net>
2008 Benno Schulenberg <benno@vertaalt.nl>
2008 Gintautas Miliauskas <gintas@akl.lt>
2008 Inko Illarramendi Arancibia <inkoia@gmail.com>
2008 Joe Hansen <joedalton2@yahoo.dk>
2008 Leslie Harlley Watter <leslie@watter.org>
2008 LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com>
2008 Marc Veillet <scouigne@gmail.com>
2008 Mikel Olasagasti <hey_neken@mundurat.net>
2008 Vincenzo Campanella <vinz65@gmail.com>
2008 Wei-Lun Chao <chaoweilun@gmail.com>
2009 Alan Pepelko <alan.pepelko@gmail.com>
2009 Andhika Padmawan <andhika.padmawan@gmail.com>
2009 Arvis Lācis <arvis.lacis@inbox.lv>
2009 Denis ARNAUD <denisarnuad@yahoo.fr>
2009 Jay Alexander Fleming <tito.nehru.naser@gmail.com>
2009 Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann@t-online.de>
2009 Michał Trzebiatowski <hippie_1968@hotmail.com>
2009 Rihards Priedītis <rprieditis@gmail.com>
2010 Jorma Karvonen <karvonen.jorma@gmail.com>
2010 Kalman Kemenczy <kkemenczy@gmail.com>
2010 Leandro Regueiro <leandro.regueiro@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2+
Files: debian/*
Copyright:
2004-2006 Carlos Z.F. Liu <carlosliu@users.sourceforge.net>, <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
2004 Ming Hua <minghua@rice.edu>
2005 Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
2005 Carlos Z.F. Liu
2007 Sven Arvidsson
2007-2009 Julien Lavergne <julien.lavergne@gmail.com>
2007-2009 Loic Minier
2009 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
2009-2013 Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
2016 Paulo Roberto Alves de Oliveira (aka kretcheu) <kretcheu@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2+
License: GPL-2+
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
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This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".
License: LGPL-2+
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
.
This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General
Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2".
If a text-editor can take so much care, then an important project like riot-web should do the needful. It does two nice things for the project. It credits the efforts of past contributors and makes it useful in a court of law in case somebody tries to do something funny with it.
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