Re: licensing issue at APT
Andre Felipe Machado <andremachado@techforce.com.br> wrote:
> Hello,
> Please, I need legal advice about the bug report [0] in APT.
> What is the correct solution?
> Regards.
> Andre Felipe Machado
>
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440049
For those who have not read the link, the copyright file for APT has
an additional permission that is only valid before November 15, 2000.
I would recommend removing it. It is just as if APT used to be BSD,
and is now GPL. In both cases, there is no need to mention the old
license.
Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@caltech.edu
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