On 2004-04-30 18:07:08 +0100 David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
| require attribution in a particular format and with a particular text,| that's fine, but non-free. This seems entirely too black-and-white to me.
Fine, go debate it somewhere. This is off-topic for debian-legal and unwelcome because we have other work to do.
You failed to attribute the previous author. I hope they take a liberal view of your copyright infringement, or that you acted within your state's "fair use" laws. I still think it's a bit rude of you.
gentoo had no way to choose between licences beyond reading ebuilds, last I saw. A generally cavalier attitude to copyright means I no longer have any gentoo systems here.
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