Copyright for the cephes library (details):
This email from Steve Moshier, the copyright owner of cephes, to Helen
Faulkner (Debian maintainer of labplot), and other interested parties
(labplot and grace authors, grace maintainer and labplot sponsor), confirms
that we may release labplot with cephes licensed under the GPL.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: licensing of cephes
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:48:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve Moshier <steve@moshier.net>
To: Helen Faulkner <helen_ml_faulkner@yahoo.co.uk>
CC: twerner@debian.org, Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>, evgeny@stambulchik.net,
Stefan Gerlach <gerlach@mbi-berlin.de>
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
This is fine with me. To acknowedge your terms explicily,
how about augmenting the permission to read something like
the following --
This software is derived from the Cephes Math Library. It is
incorporated herein, and licensed in accordance with DFSG,
by permission of the author.
If you are trying to get me to suggest a specific form for your
license, then from looking at Debian programs such as dpkg it seems to
me that you would find the GPL to be appropriate and the permission
statement could reference one of the GPL documents instead of DFSG.
Alternatively, the packages you have been talking about distributing
with Debian presumably come with some sort of licenses and it would
make sense to propose those licenses.