Clarify link between pako and zlib

[bastien-roucaries]

Hi,

From debian side for legal reason we want to know the relationship between pako and zlib.

Does you translate zlib ? Do you made a clean room reimplementation ?

Thank you very much

BTW thanking zlib author will be nice in README.md

[puzrin]

If you ask about this folder https://github.com/nodeca/pako/tree/master/lib/zlib, that's not auto-translated code. We did source as close as possible to original, but JS does not support some features, and there are some differences. Also some features were not implemented.

Top level wrappers are not related to zlib and done for convenient use with JS.

BTW thanking zlib author will be nice in README.md

I could join zlib license to existing license file. Will it be correct?

[puzrin]

See commit. Does it solve this issue?

[bastien-roucaries]

No in this case:

• lib/zlib is under zlib license with addition from your side under expat (MIT is ambigous).
• other file are under expat license

Aknowledgement is fine

In order to be safer include zlib license in lib/zlib and add header (comment) about copyright in every files of this folder (§3 of zlib license)

Thanks

[puzrin]

Could tell me exact content of header comment?

[puzrin]

https://github.com/nodeca/pako/tree/zlib

Moved all into zlib branch to keep master clear until finished. Need help with text to copy into headers. Original headers are for C and refer to zlib.h (not existing in this project). But i'm ready to place there anything you recommend.

[bastien-roucaries]

See pull request

[puzrin]

Please check eaead04

If it's ok, i'll merge to master and tag new release.

[bastien-roucaries]

Feel free to close and make a new release

[puzrin]

Released 1.0.5

Thanks for your help!

[puzrin]

@bastien-roucaries may be you could advice or forward me to someone...

Most of my projects have MIT licence. Can i impersonate first line of it? I don't like to type my name as copyright holder there (in case of MIT that gives nothing useful but can add mainenance deals in future). Is it possible to replace copyright holder info with something impersonated but still keep licence legal?

[bastien-roucaries]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Vitaly Puzrin ***@***.***> wrote: @bastien-roucaries <https://github.com/bastien-roucaries> may be you could advice or forward me to someone... Most of my projects have MIT licence. Can i impersonate first line of it? I don't like to type my name as copyright holder there (in case of MIT that gives nothing useful but can add mainenance deals in future). Is it possible to replace copyright holder info with something impersonated but still keep licence legal?

​Yes you can (like node pako team). But you should never remove ​ ​a previous author from the list​

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[puzrin]

"pako team" is better, but still not enougth abstract. Can i use something like "contributors", or "pako contributors"?

Here was example with Copyright (c) The Chromium AUTHORS, but they still track all in AUTHORS file (i'd like to avoid this).