From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from 7of9.schinagl.nl ([88.159.158.68]:38664 "EHLO 7of9.schinagl.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354Ab3AXORm (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:17:42 -0500 Message-ID: <51014243.70901@schinagl.nl> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:16:35 +0100 From: Oliver Schinagl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab CC: Jonathan McCrohan , Jiri Slaby , Manu Abraham , Michael Krufky , Johannes Stezenbach , linux-media , Christoph Pfister Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial scan files troubles and brainstorming References: <50EF0A4F.1000604@gmail.com> <50EF2155.5060905@schinagl.nl> <50EF256B.8030308@gmail.com> <50EF276C.1080101@gmail.com> <50EF2AC0.20206@schinagl.nl> <20130111011232.GA3255@lambda.dereenigne.org> <20130111102317.63b26248@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20130111102317.63b26248@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11-01-13 13:23, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:12:33 +0000 > Jonathan McCrohan escreveu: > >> On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:55:28 +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote: >>> Actually, there's plenty of apps etc that depend on it. I know some >>> distro's install it into /usr/share/dvb for all to use. I think actually >>> only a very small handfull use their own scanfiles. Very small handfull >>> I belive ;) >> Indeed. I have just gone to file an Intent To Package bug for the >> dtv-scan-tables package in Debian, but I noticed that the COPYING and >> README files were not split out from the dvb-apps tree. >> >> Logically it would follow that dtv-scan-tables is also licenced under >> LGPL, the same as dvb-apps, but this needs to be stated explicitly. >> This is especially true for distributions which be redistributing >> dtv-scan-tables. > As this is currently a copy of the dvb-apps, and the other patches added > there are sent meant to be merged at dvb-apps, the license that applies > on it should be inherited. > > That's said, this is just database entries where the values were obtained > from a public service. Anyone else with access to the same > transponders/carriers would be obtaining the very same data. So, I don't > think that copyright law applies here. IANAL, but it sounds to me > that such info would be public domain. > > Yet, to avoid legal issues, I suggest to copy the COPYING from > the dvb-apps tree. Also, sooner or later a Makefile will likely be added > there, and maybe some ancillary scripts. So, it makes sense to state > the license there anyway. License has been merged from dvb-apps (keeping history) and pushed to the repo. > Regards, > Mauro