A meager copyright. Remotely acceptable?
Dear mentors,
I probably prematurely responded to an RFP for 'oftpd', an FTP
server for only anonymous access, and only giving read access.
The RFP reportee himself suggested GPL as the applicable license,
which I now see is utterly nonsense. I could use the insights of
those better understanding these matters.
The only mention of GPL in the entire source archive are found
in two specifications for building RPM-packages. Beyond that,
the files produced using autotools contain the usual FSF attribution.
That leaves __one_single__ file (oftpd-0.3.7/COPYING) expressing a
claim of copyright. The text is below reproduced verbatim. As far
as I can understand the text there seems to yield no possiblility to
relate this to GPL, and to no other DFSG-compliant license either.
Am I correct in this observation?
Best regards
Mats Erik Andersson, fil. dr
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