<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hello Chris,<br><br></div>I'm not sure if I understand you clearly. <br></div>In README.markdown is specified that ..<br><br>Original Python Library is Copyright (C) 2009 Brett Lentz brett.lentz(at)gmail(dot)com<br><br></div> - If I google zabbix-api and Author name Brett Lentz , i can find this git repo on github for it <a href="https://github.com/blentz/zabbix_api">https://github.com/blentz/zabbix_api</a><br> And <a href="https://github.com/blentz/zabbix_api/blob/master/zabbix/setup.py">https://github.com/blentz/zabbix_api/blob/master/zabbix/setup.py</a> contains following<br> >>> <br><br> setup(<br> name='zabbix-api',<br> url='<a href="https://github.com/gescheit/scripts">https://github.com/gescheit/scripts</a>',<br> version='0.1',<br> license='GNU LGPL 2.1',<br> author='Aleksandr Balezin',<br> author_email='<a href="mailto:gescheit@list.ru">gescheit@list.ru</a>',<br> description='Zabbix API',<br> long_description=read('README'),<br> py_modules=['zabbix_api'],<br> include_package_data=True,<br> zip_safe=False,<br> platforms='any',<br> )<br><br> <br><br></div> - In pip i can find that package and show details : <br><br> >>><br> Name: zabbix-api<br> Version: 0.5.3<br> Summary: Zabbix API<br> Home-page: <a href="https://github.com/gescheit/scripts">https://github.com/gescheit/scripts</a><br> Author: Aleksandr Balezin<br> Author-email: <a href="mailto:gescheit12@gmail.com">gescheit12@gmail.com</a><br> License: GNU LGPL 2.1<br> Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages<br> Requires: <br><br></div><br></div>In a package python-pyzabbix what I've created isn't any import for zabbix_api , so Luke Cyca was only inspired ( maybe took over some code .. ) ..<br></div><div>So for me it sounds it is not derivative, because not importing anything from zabbix_api<br></div><div><br></div>So , I think there is no need to specify anything in copyright .... <br><br></div>Please, correct me if I am wrong .<br></div>If I am wrong , please, could you advice me how to describe and specify this "inspiration" ( or how I can call it ) in copyright file ? <br><br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Michal Arbet ( Kevin ;-) )<br><br><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-03-15 0:24 GMT+01:00 Chris Lamb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org" target="_blank">ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Please clarify the copyright re "Original Python Library" in README.markdown in<br>
the debian/copyright file in your next upload. Unclear whether this is a<br>
derivative and thus original author still needs some attribution.<br>
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-- Chris Lamb <<a href="mailto:lamby@debian.org">lamby@debian.org</a>> Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:24:04 +0000<br>
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