Dear knowledge source, As can be seen in #294559 I hope to become a debian developer. In the same bug report one can see that the package I'd like to start with is netbiff. According to it's web page the license is: " License All code contained in netbiff is released into the public domain. " Until I got asked me to double check with you I thought no problems existed including software with public domained source code in debian. It have been claimed that PD is a vague definition and the way GNU defines freedom, PD is only almost free because future versions might not be free. But that only applies do derived works, right? My understanding is that once released under the public domain, the public's right to that release can't be revoked? Have I gotten that entirely wrong? Will the upstream developer have to add a copyright claim to the PD license too to make it legal? I could try convince the Author to change to another license if there are serious problems with having PD software in debian. However I would prefer not to since I consider it to be the Author's right to choose what license to release his work under and respecting the wishes of others are important to me. -- /Martin
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