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Re: Verifying licence for packaging



Jeff Epler wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:48:47AM +0300, Michael Gvirtzman wrote:

Full text as of this date:
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     Golden Rules Organizer v1.4 - End User License Agreement
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Copyright © 2008-2009, Michael Gvirtzman. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved by copyright owner. Software and User's Manual are registered with the US Copyright Office.

Does this license expressly grant some rights? Where?

BTW the copyright law explicitly grants some rights to users. You cannot
reserve such rights.

I find the license very confusing, thus it will give you and the recipient
troubles. I suggest you:
- use a well know license
or
- get a real advice from a lawyer to write a license


Debian distribution need free (as free speech) software. Check e.g.
- http://www.debian.org/intro/free
- http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

ciao
	cate


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