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