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Re: Libapache-mod-backhand: load balancing Apache requests.



On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:38:29AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:27:26PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
> > I am taking this licence as DFSG OK, and will be trying to get this 
> > package into "main" after a tad more testing. Your help is very 
> > much appreciated.
> 
> Hmm, it might not be DFSG OK until *after* you have renamed it.
> Surely a Debian package is a derived product?
 
For the Debian package, I think this is not an issue: I took the step to 
contact the main author back in December/January and seek permission 
as a courtesy, and he said:

In December, 2000, the mod_backhand author wrote to me:
> You, of course, don't need my permission to make it up into 
> a debian package (given the license,) but I appreciate you asking!  
> I would be delighted if you packaged and maintained the debian 
> package for mod_backhand.  

The debian package has not had any modified code; only the build system 
(makefiles, autoconf). Is this derrived? I don't think so; the code is  
redistributed in source and binary forms, as permitted (and as seen above, 
desired!). ;)


Cheers,
  James

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 James Bromberger <james_AT_rcpt.to> www.rcpt.to/~james

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