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Re: libcompface license (again)



On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +1100, James Ashton wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I'm maintaining the debian pkg of your compface lib, and I've talket to you
> >before about it's license. And now ouer legal people have found another
> >problem. The sourcefiles contains a diffrent copyright notice than the
> >redmefile. They say:
> >
> >> *  Permission is given to distribute these sources, as long as the
> >> *  copyright messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged.=20
> >
> >The problem is the last part "no monies are exchanged". As you probably=20
> >know we do allow third party companies to produce debian CDs and sell them.
> >So this statement would inmply that we can't have your libcompface in debian
> >at all.
> 
> I'm happy to remove the phrase `no monies are exchanged' from the
> source and allow distribution as per the README file.  Do you need more
> from me than just this email?

I don't think so, but I'd better let ouer legal people decide that. Thanx!

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