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Re: public domain no modification



On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:29:31 -0700 Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
[...]
> > Clearly §2 is meant to distinguish derived work from original work.
> > However in our case, this means this package will have to have its
> > name change whenever we need to patch the source code (eg. fix a
> > compilation error).
> 
> This appears to be entirely consistent with the requirements of DFSG #4.

That's not my understanding of the issue under consideration: more
details are included in my own analysis [1].

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/04/msg00007.html


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