Dan Weber wrote: > * Package name : socket++ > Version : 1.12.12 > Upstream Author : Gnanasekaran(Sekar) Swaminathan <gs4t@virginia.edu>, > Herbert Straub <herbert@linuxhacker.at> > * URL : http://www.linuxhacker.at/socketxx > * License : Pasted below with License Statement > Description : lightweight convenience library to handle low level BSD sockets in C++ > [snip long description] > > -- License > > Original Copyright Notice: > > Permission is granted to use at your own risk and distribute this software > in source and binary forms provided the above copyright notice and this > paragraph are preserved on all copies. This software is provided "as is" > with no express or implied warranty. This license alone would not be sufficient, since it does not allow modification. However... > Copyright Statement: > >>>Got your message. Please feel free to include it in >>>any software and use it as you please. Let me know if >>>you need any help with it. > > and further: > +++ > Hi Herbert, > > That was not the intention. It is a free code. You can modify, > copy, and distribute and use it in anyway as you see fit. > > Other people are maintaining it and ported it to different > OSes. Other than that, not much has changed as far as I know. > I haven't looked at it recently. > > -Sekar ... this clarification makes the software clearly DFSG-Free (though it would be preferable if this mail explicitly referred to socket++ and not just "it" :) ). > -- Side Note > > This ITP is being cross posted to debian-legal for the purpose of verifying > that this is capable of being placed in main. Definitely. Be sure to include the clarification in the copyight file along with the original license. - Josh Triplett
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