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Bug#555168: Unclear license situation for (e)glibc locales provided by you



Hello Dr. Kreutzmann

I have absolutely no objections to the statement being modified to allow for modification and re-licensed. Pablo contacted me for help so I have included his updated e-mail in the reply too. As long as the locale can be updated, modified and distributed freely for the benefit of everyone I have no objections :)
 If you require anything else from me please do not hesitate to ask.

Regards
Shehzad

> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:22:30 +0200
> From: debian@helgefjell.de
> To: shehzadashiq@hotmail.com; pablo@mandrakesoft.com
> CC: 555168@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Unclear license situation for (e)glibc locales provided by you
>
> Hello,
> you are listed as contact person/author of the following locale:
>
> ur_PK
>
> This locale comes with a statement
>
> % Distribution and use is free, also
> % for commercial purposes.
>
> Thus it does not allow modification; it is unclear, however, if this
> statement was meant as a license.
>
> As discussed in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555168 this
> locale could strictly speaking not be part of Debian which would be a
> great loss. (Currently it is allowed pending investigation).
>
> To properly resolve this, I would like to ask you the following
> question:
>
> Would you be willing to relicense this locale to a proper license,
> e.g. (L)GPL v2 or higher or another free software license of your choice?
>
> If you have any questions regarding this issue, do not hesitate to
> contact me (via the reply-to address set).
>
> Thanks for helping to resolve this!
>
> Helge
>
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