Thanks for bringing this to my attention (I'm the iglooftp debian maintainer)!
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 07:51:16PM -0400, James LewisMoss wrote: [snip - commercial Pro version] > /* IglooFTP - Graphical and User Friendly FTP Client. > * Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Jean-Marc Jacquet. > * All rights reserved. > * > * THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY > * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT > * LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY > * AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE > * > * IglooFTP Original Packages, information and support, > * can be obtained at : > * http://www.littleigloo.org > * > * > */ > > in the top level "COPYRIGHT" file and all the source files I looked at > (which includes all of them in src (I'll ignore the one in lib which > is netscape-remote). Looking at the source for 0.6.1 (the last "free" one I saw), the copyright is the same, but it does include LICENSE - which is the artistic license. > I'm not sure how this package was classified as GPL to begin with. > There are debian modifications that point to the GPL in > /usr/share/common-licenses rather than the artistic license it seems > to want to include. That looks suspicious to me. I've CCed the > Debian maintainer for clarification. (Maybe it was GPLed at 0.3.x > and the changes persisted. Seems likely to me.) I _might_ have made a mistake and linked to the GPL ones rather than the artistic ones by mistake, I thought it was GPL'd - although I only checked this for the first version (0.3.1). > With all the indications that it is "OpenSource" scattered around I > guess we can assume that it was open source despite none of the source > files actually saying this. Is this a fair assessment? [snip] > Was it ever GPLed? Looking at the source in Debian I'm not sure > that's true. (Of course I don't have the 0.3.x source to look at. Ditto :-( If that says artistic then the debian package linking to the GPL (and /usr/doc/iglooftp/copyright saying GPL) is a mistake on my part. Otherwise, the license has been changed. There is no mention of a changed license in the changelog. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
