[GNU-linux-libre] on thinking about copyright notices

[Paul O'Malley]

It may be the case that if you dig into Debian's copyright files you 
will find an exception beyond the included copyright file.

What do I mean by this?

A package was referred to me previously as being non-free however it was 
in main in Debian. I checked the copyright notice that came with the 
package and clearly it was non-free. However I kept digging. I found 
that there was a README with the file which had in it a mail exchange 
with the author which changed the licence to free. In fact it changed it 
to the "do whatever you want with it" type of licence.

regards
Paul
(yes I did help found gNewSense)