On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:29:25PM +1100, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > I have started packaging petris, a command line tetris clone > (http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/). > > The README says: > > "LICENSE" > You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. > (however, it would be nice of you to credit me if you found anything > of this useful). > > Is this DFSG compliant? If not, what would be the closest to this that > would be? > > [The package is supposed to go into main (in fact it is meant to be part > of the fix for bug #233605).] This is DFSG-compliant in the U.S., but statements that a work is in the "public domain", as I understand it, may be void in many other jurisdictions relevant to Debian. I'd recommend a public-domain & MIT/X11 dual-"license" to handle this case. -- G. Branden Robinson | Those who fail to remember the laws Debian GNU/Linux | of science are condemned to branden@debian.org | rediscover some of the worst ones. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Harold Gordon
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