Harald Dunkel wrote: > This did work. Mouse told me that Blockade is "public domain", > which I would translate to BSD license. AFAIK this license > allows me to do whatever I like with the sources. "Public domain" has a specific legal meaning, and it isn't "under the BSD license". "Public domain" means "not copyrighted". This is actually even more permissive than the BSD license or any other copyright-based license, since the BSD license (and most others) requires you to include the copyright and license notice in source or binary distribution, and copyright law alone (even without a license) requires you to preserve copyright notices. > Question: Am I allowed to copy-n-paste some BSD license header > into his sources and distribute it as a Debian source package? Legally you could, since public domain works can be relicensed however you wish; however, don't do that. Instead, note clearly that the sources are in the public domain, and include the email from der Mouse authorizing this in the debian/copyright file. - Josh Triplett
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