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Re: Handwaving licence



On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Paul Martin wrote:

> How DFSG-free is an email from the author saying the following?
> 
> > Please feel free to distribute it any way you want.
> > However, it would be nice if you could leave a reference to my
> > web site and email.

Probably it isn't free because it doesn't expressly permit modification.

I am sure the author intended for this code to be public domain but he did
not specify this clearly, so we can't really assume that. :}

If you wrote him and asked him to clarify I think he would be happy to do
so.



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