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- This package is maintained for Debian by Bdale Garbee, <bdale@gag.com>.
-
- It was downloaded from ftp.redhat.com, as a source .rpm from the 5.1 release.
-
- Copyright:
-
- No explicit copyright is asserted. Nick Holloway is the earliest author
- recorded in the sourcecode. I queried him for an explicit statement
- regarding the license status of this work, and this is his reply:
-
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:57:10 +0100
- From: Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk>
- Message-Id: <199807211857.TAA19068@alfie.demon.co.uk>
- To: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
- Subject: Re: makedev license?
-
- > I maintain the makedev package for Debian GNU/Linux. I am about to move
- > from the ill-fated makedev-1.6 to the makedev-2.3.1 derived from your work
- > by the folks at Redhat. I don't see any evidence of a copyright assertion
- > or explicit license statement in the source. Your name appears to be the
- > earliest attached to the current sourcecode. Am I correct in assuming the
- > GPL? We try to be meticulous about having our base system be compliant
- > with our Debian Free Software Guidelines, so I'd like an explicit statement.
-
- It was never explictly released as GPL, as that would have required
- including the file COPYING which would have been much larger than the
- actual MAKEDEV script (I was also too lazy to find out what incantations
- needed to be made). However, it is intended to be used as anyone sees
- fit, and the statement under "Copying Policy" is "Freely Redistributable"
- (see MAKEDEV.lsm from any of the releases I made).
-
- The more recent modifications were done by Michael K. Johnson at
- Redhat. I think the understanding was that he would be taking over the
- maintenance of MAKEDEV (our discussion took place last September).
-
- The only previous history was (according to an old posting to
- comp.os.linux) that I started with Jim Winstead's script.
-
- So, as far as I am concerned, it is consistentwith the Debian FSG.
-
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-
- A complete copy of the GPL is provided on Debian systems in the file
- /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
-