Re: fortunes-atheist copyright again (would be FW: Re: copyright)
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> Like I said before (see
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0104/msg01443.html), I intend to
> package Wayne Aiken's atheist fortunes available at his site
> (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aiken/). This is the response I've got from him. I'm
> waiting for advice (is it enough to include this e-mail response as the
> copyright?). Since he states he "encourages everyone to copy it and use it
> freely", I'm pretty sure I'm authorized to package it, but IANAL, so I'm asking
> you guys (and girls, in case Demonishi is reading this).
This looks fine. He has has purposely abandoned any copyright on the
collection, and the individual quotes seem small enough to go under
fair use. Putting his email into the license file should be ok.
Regards,
Walter Landry
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