Hi Axel, On Monday, 29 Aug 2005, you wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 04:00:04PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > * License : Public Domain > > > > [...] > > > > License: Public domain > > Since the author of the software is German, and German law does not > allow the concept of public domain (by will), the package cannot be > published as public domain. > > > License Details: The author wrote in his (German written) blog > > at http://blog.256bit.org/archives/126-Wikipedia-in-der-Shell.html: > > > > Wer's haben will, mag es nehmen und damit tun was auch immer er mag. > > > > Which means roughly translated to English: > > > > Anyone who wants it can take it and do whatever he wants to do with > > it. > > When asked, if this statement could also be interpreted as BSD > license, the author mentioned that he had a BSD license in mind when > he wrote the statement mentioned above. So he's fine with the BSD > license at /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD > > Regards, Axel
it would help, if he could include the License in the upstream tarball, or if you include the mail in debian/copyright. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
