Bug#107915: ITP: vim-scripts -- plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:09:29PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
>
> I want to collect some of those scripts on a purely subjective and
> biased basis, and turn them into a Debian package, so that users can
> have a nice collection without having to go searching. Tell me if you
> think it's superfluous.
it is certainly a nice idea
>
> Copyright and licensing: That's a problem. The scripts are freely
> available on the web, but most of them don't bear any licence. No
> licence usually means no right to use and distribute. Is there any
> reason I can ignore this problem? Or should I rather contact all the
> authors of individual scripts?
You definitly should contact authors. The alternative is either to make
an installer package (that downloads the scripts and builds a debian
package out of them), or do not put the package into debian - you can
distribute it from your homepage at your own legal risk.
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