Re: License issues with fortune packages?
* Joseph Carter
| On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 03:05:16PM -0700, John Galt wrote:
| > Probably all would be good with proper attribution, but I'd keep them in
| > non-free if I were you (proper attribution does NOT release you from
| > copyright restrictions, it just enhances the "fair use" claim).
|
| Fair use is fair use, and therefore not subject to restrictions.
|
| The collection may be under Copyright, but I would hope a fairly liberal
| license.
Actually most of them doesn't have a license, though I don't think
it will be a problem to get a proper license on them, but I wanted to
check the legalness with you before contacting the authors etc.
So, it's ok for them to go into main?
(Please keep me on the Cc list)
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