Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [KFV] no licence for shannon.h

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:18:31 +0200
crap0101 <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> Update: attached is the mail i send to the author and his answer.
> Fist, he said he's not really the author :)

Thanks for following up on this.

> The code as been taken from a post by comp.os.inferno (link at bug
> 352's page), truly written by him (from arcshannon.c), but heavy
> modified by someone and put in shannon.h.
> 
> In his opinion the pin assignment is hardly copyright, so maybe is ok
> to have it.

> Also, he pointed out the follow: the copyright notice should be change
> to reflect the real author and whence the code come from (detail in
> the attachment).
> 
> what do you think?

If you could find out the details (eg, who wrote what, which bits need
copyright clarification) we could take the whole lot to the upstream
project directly.
kk

> Thanks
> 


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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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