question on adding licenses from code website
Hello,
I mentioned previously that I'm interested in packaging a few bits of
numerical code available from some university websites that we depend
on.
One is LUMOD from Stanford, and I stated that it had no license. I've
now been informed that I missed a page on their site where the license
is indeed given as optionally MIT or BSD:
http://web.stanford.edu/group/SOL/software.html
It consists of a single sentence at the top of that web page. Clearly
the intention is to make the software free, however the license is not
found in the downloadable zip files or any source files. I can try to
convince them to add it to the source downloads, but as you know
convincing people to change a file containing old code that has been
hosted there for years is difficult at best.
My question for Debian developers is, is it ok for me to add a quilt
patch in my package that adds the license, or is that a no-no?
regards,
Steve
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