Re: elilo-installer copyright status

[Richard Hirst <richard@sleepie.demon.co.uk>]

Hey Dann,

Not sure what you want me to say, but "GPL version 2 or later" is
fine with me.  It was a long time ago, but as I recall I just wrote
a shell script and did a bit of packaging work.

Richard


dann frazier wrote:
> (Trying a different address for Richard, @debian.org bounces)
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:08:36AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Peter Rock wrote:
> > > Hello, I hope I'm contacting the right folks!
> > >
> > > I'm trying to find out the copyright status of the elilo-installer
> > > package to see if it qualifies as free software or not. Below is a bit
> > > of a description and I was advised by debian-legal to ask the package
> > > maintainers. Hope someone can help!
> > Bdale is the original author of elilo-installer, although it's derived
> > from lilo-installer. rhirst, cjwatson, bubulle, dannf, Jim Lieb, and I
> > have each made changes that might be substantial enough to be copyrightable
> > (or not).
> >
> > Since lilo-installer is licensed under the GPL version 2 or later, I
> > suggest it's sanest for elilo-installer to have the same license. I
> > place my modifications to it under this license. Could the listed
> > people please respond with a similar statement?
> >
> > Isn't this our _second_ udeb that got past the ftp-masters with no
> > copyright file? It's not the last one. See upcoming mail for
> > quik-installer. :-/