Debian Bug report logs - #834207
tj3: Copyright of lib/taskjuggler/AlgorithmDiff.rb

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From: Christopher Hoskin <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: tj3: Copyright of lib/taskjuggler/AlgorithmDiff.rb

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 06:33:26 +0100

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Package: tj3
Version: 3.6.0-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

The file lib/taskjuggler/AlgorithmDiff.rb contains the text "But some code fragments are very similar to the original and are copyright (C) 2001 Lars Christensen."

Should this be reflected in the debian/copyright file (see attached patch)?

Thanks.

Christopher Hoskin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tj3 depends on:
ii  ruby                 1:2.3.0+4
ii  ruby-mail            2.6.4+dfsg1-1
ii  ruby-term-ansicolor  1.3.0-1

tj3 recommends no packages.

tj3 suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Bernat <[email protected]>

To: Christopher Hoskin <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#834207: tj3: Copyright of lib/taskjuggler/AlgorithmDiff.rb

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:29:40 +0200

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 ❦ 13 août 2016 07:33 CEST, Christopher Hoskin <[email protected]> :

> The file lib/taskjuggler/AlgorithmDiff.rb contains the text "But some
> code fragments are very similar to the original and are copyright (C)
> 2001 Lars Christensen."
>
> Should this be reflected in the debian/copyright file (see attached
> patch)?

The original implementation cited is written in Perl. This
implementation is in Ruby. An algorithm itself cannot be
copyrighted. The attribution is done in a bit of confusing way. I don't
think this is worth to push this confusion in debian/copyright. If the
author (Chris) really thinks that his work is derived work, he should
have just added the name of the original author in its copyright
attribution.
-- 
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		-- Mark Twain

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