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Re: Source code with no (explicit) licence



On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:49:41AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> My gut feeling is that a non-licence remains no licence -- and that, if
> it were ever proposed for Debian (which it hasn't been), it would end up
> in non-free following the "err on the side of caution" principle.

Your gut feeling is wrong.  Without a license, the program cannot be
distributed at all.  DJB knows this.  He likes it that way, apparently.

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