Control: severity -1 normal [Adam Ant] > Source files for libnml lack standard Debian or SPDX copyright headers. > Also obsolete version of LGPL used.
Can you be more specific? I do not understand what you mean by "standard Debian or SPDX copyright headers", and fail to understand how using old LGPL versions would be a problem. Perhaps you can prepare a patch with what you believe are more accurate copyright information? It would make it easier to understand exactly what you are talking about. > Source files for both the core linuxcnc & libmnl are forked and munged from > a NIST project known as the Enhanced Machine Control (EMC). The source code > for this is public domain. One can NOT take PD code, claim copyright, and > then slap an arbitrary license on it. > > At best, renders the license unenforceable in many jurisdictions, or illegal > in some. I am unaware of any jurisdictions where publishing work derived from public domain works would make it illegal to distribute. Which jurisdictions do you have in mind here? Note, I agree that relicensing public domain works might be hard to enforce copyright on the public domain code if the same code is published both "alone" as public domain and as part of some non-public domain code, as it would be hard to prove which version was the base of such use, but that do not seem to be a relevant issue for distributing LinuxCNC. > Kindly refer to Debian Legal Are you refering to specific existing posts on Debian Legal, or suggesting we bring up some topic on the list ourself? If the former, can you point to specific posts on lists.debian.org? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
