Advice on copyrights (Re: TkRat (fwd))
Is this OK for the main distribution, or will it, as I suspect, have to go
into non-free?
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Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 22:32:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: maf@dtek.chalmers.se
To: mbaker@iee.org
Subject: Re: TkRat
On 4 May, Mark Baker wrote:
> I'm making a package of tkrat for Debian Linux.
Great.
> As I understand your copyright notice, it forbids it's inclusion on a CD
> sold by a commercial company, even if it is only one of many programs on
> there? Is that correct? This doesn't stop it being included with debian,
No, the only thing I forbid is that somebody else does any (significant)
modifications to it but still call it TkRat. You are welcome to put it
on CDs, comercial or not.
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