Re: one liner license, sufficient for DFSG?
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 06:29, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to package dumpasn1 for Debian, dowloaded from
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/. It has no license, except
> for this sentence in the source:
>
> --*snip*--
> You can use this code in whatever way you want, as long as you don't
> try to claim you wrote it.
> --*snip*--
>
> I think this is sufficient for the DFSG, but I am not sure. I already wrote
> to the auther, but I got no response yet.
>
>
> Please Cc to me, I am not subscibed. Thanks.
>
> Greetings,
> Oliver
That works out to be public domain essentially. It would be nice if software
developers would be less cavalier with their code. You could actually sue
him if his software failed to compile.
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