Re: Bug#326772: Processed: bug clone
On 06.09.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> > On 06.09.05 Peter S Galbraith (psg@debian.org) wrote:
Hi,
> >> Now for my problem... I've extracted cwebm.el from
> >> cweb_files.tar.gz and I see no copyright notice. It doesn't
> >> directly `load' any Emacs code so perhaps it doesn't need to be
> >> GPL'ed, but it needs a copyright notice of some sort. It is
> >> assumed to have the same license as TeX? Does the license permit
> >> the modification being released under the same name? I recall
> >> there's something funky about that in the TeX license...
>
> Yes, Clause 4 of the DFSG has a special exception exactly for that.
>
If we have that...
> > Max, is that acceptable for you? Any other suggestions?
>
> We should put those lines from README into the file, anyway.
>
..and we can redistribute that file with a different name (Max Vasim
agreed in a personal mail) I guess we're done here. He suggested we
should put a header into the file, that this an replacement from
cweb.el (and we will copy the part of the README).
Regards,
Hilmar
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