Re: Advice on an almost public domain package
Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their
> works into the public domain. Perhaps you could get him to release
> the code under a very permissive license, such as the MIT/X11 license?
Having just read the license -- much easier if the text is included
instead of linked -- it's clear this author has already considered
that.
> If that's not acceptable, a public-domain declaration is, I think,
> good enough for Debian -- you should be perfectly clear packaging the code.
It looks perfectly reasonable to distribute the PD parts of this
package.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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