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diff --git a/converter/other/cameratopam/COPYRIGHT b/converter/other/cameratopam/COPYRIGHT new file mode 100644 index 00000000..efc77975 --- /dev/null +++ b/converter/other/cameratopam/COPYRIGHT @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Cameratopam is derived from Dave Coffin's Dcraw program. + +Bryan Henderson derived it in April 2005. Bryan mainly just split it up +into manageable pieces and replaced the parts that generate Netpbm formats +and the command line parser. + +Dcraw and therefore Cameratopam is Copyright 1997-2005 by Dave Coffin, +dcoffin a cybercom o net, and Dave licenses it to the public freely, +except that the Foveon code (in foveon.c in Netpbm) is copyrighted by +someone else (I don't know who). + +Dave licenses his copyright to the public freely, with the words, "Any +code not declared GPL is free for all uses." Only the code in +foveon.c in Netpbm was declared GPL in Dave's work. + +The foveon code is licensed to the public by its unknown copyright owner +under GPL. + +The Netpbm maintainer distributes the entire Cameratopam package under +GPL. + +Dave's distribution to Bryan may be a copyright violation, but +strangely enough, Bryan's distribution to others is not. I.e. you DO +have license from every copyright owner to do GPL-compatible things +with this code. + +The problem with Dave's distribution is that he combined the Foveon +code and his code into a single work and distributed it with GPL terms +applying only to the Foveon code. The combined work may be a +derivative work of the Foveon code and therefore cannot be distributed +with the permission of the Foveon copyright owner, who gives that +permission only on the condition that the distributor license the +entire derivative work under GPL. Dave did not do that. He did not, +for example, prohibit Bryan from distributing Dave's part of the code +in object code only format. |