Re: Problems with ntp

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Nathanael Nerode <neroden@not.real.address.com> writes:

> Please stop being rude when you're wrong.

Pot, kettle, black.

> The general license is attached to *one copyright notice*, that for the
> lead author.

> If the license was clearly issued by more than one copyright holder
> (which it's not), and the general file stated that the *license* applied
> to all files in the distribution "unless specifically declared otherwise
> in an individual file", that would be different.  Instead, the file
> states that the *copyright notice* applies to all files in the
> distribution "unless specifically declared otherwise in an individual
> file", and proceeds to give a license from that copyright holder alone.

While it would be nice to clean up this sort of thing just to avoid future
confusion, this doesn't strike me as a serious problem worthy of removing
the software from Debian unless the upstream copyright holders indicate
that they really had intended to offer no license for those files.  That's
a very strange and very unlikely interpretation.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>