Re: comments on String::LRC license
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:13:25AM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
> ivan@420.am wrote:
> >
> > Is this license considered DFSG free? The part that seems like it might
> > be troublesome is the "The author makes no representations of possessing
> > full or partial copyright to the LRC code nor the algorythyms used in this
> > module, as said is either public knowledge or inspired by multiple
> > sources."
>
> It is probably ok. It sounds like the only place where there could
> even be a question is with the excerpts from Soenke J. Peters'
> String::CRC32. It depends how big the excerps are. Do you know what
> the license of Peters' software is?
No problem there, String::CRC32 is public domain. From
/usr/share/doc/libstring-crc32-perl/copyright:
The author of this package disclaims all copyrights and
releases it into the public domain.
--
_ivan
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