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licensing of textutils


From: Peter S Galbraith
Subject: licensing of textutils
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:38:47 -0500

Hi,

I was looking at the sources of textutils and found that:

 - src/cut.c and src/paste.c are copyrighted by David M. Ihnat under
   this license:

   "This program may be freely copied and distributed, provided this
    notice remains; it may not be sold for profit without express written
    consent of the author."
 
 - a grep for the author "Ihnat" in THANKS or elsewhere in the top level
   directory yield nothing.

Note that this license is non-free.  It doesn't allow selling (even in
an aggregate form) and it's doesn't even mention the distribution of
modified sources.

I really hope this is all a misunderstanding and that the author really
did sign over this code to the FSF.

If this message goes to a mailing list, please CC me in your reponses.
I'd be happy to hear quickly about the resolution of this bug, since
I'd hate to submit a release-critical bug against an essential package
in Debian GNU/Linux during the current release process of woody.

Thanks for your attention,

Peter








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