[gphoto-bugs] [ gphoto-Bugs-2136584 ] gtkam: unclear copyright/license

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Bugs item #2136584, was opened at 2008-09-29 18:54
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Category: gtkam
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Andreas Metzler (ametzler)
Assigned to: Marcus Meissner (marcusmeissner)
Summary: gtkam: unclear copyright/license

Initial Comment:
For gtkam both copyright holder and license are quite unclear:

* AUTHORS lists Scott Fritzingeras as sole author (except for translations)

* The copyright headers in src/* look like this:
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gtkam-0.1.15$ grep -hr Copyright src/*.[ch] | sort -u
 * Copyright  2001 Lutz Mueller <lutz@...>
 * Copyright  2001 Lutz Mueller <lutz@...>
 * Copyright  2001 Lutz Mueller <lutz@...>
 * Copyright  2002 Hans Ulrich Niedermann <gp@...
 * Copyright  2002 Lutz Mueller <lutz@...>
--------------
with Hans Ulrich Niedermann only listed for two files. This looks like Lutz Mueller is basically almost the only copyright holder *and* as if there has not been any signigicant change to the source since 2002.

* The license statements in src/* lists LGPLv2.1+ as applicable.

* COPYING contains a copy of the GPL.

* README brings a little bit of enlightenment. ;-)
"GTKam has originally been written by Scott Fritzinger <scottf@...>. Lutz Mueller <lutz@...> rewrote everything using GTK's object oriented approach. That made it possible to introduce many new
features."

I assume that the GPL instead of LGPL in COPYING is just an oversight - could you please fix that?

It would also be nice if the copyright header in the *.c files could be kept uptodate, listing all (significant) contributors and the respective year.

I have got another, very simple wish: Please update the license header to the new GNU template. The part
----------------
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
----------------

should be changed to
-------------
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
--------------------

Thank you for providing this piece of software.

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>Comment By: Marcus Meissner (marcusmeissner)
Date: 2008-10-04 14:43

Message:
so, changed all file headers to GPL, adjusted
Copyright information for developers.

There werent much changes after 2002. Some in 2004 and 2005, but not much.

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Comment By: Marcus Meissner (marcusmeissner)
Date: 2008-10-04 13:45

Message:
hmhm.

I adjusted AUTHORS.

I will adjust the c files, but I think the original intent we had was GPL,
so I will
change them to GPL.

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