On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 05:45:23PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> "Edward John M. Brocklesby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Ysgrifennodd [email protected] ar Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 10:24:40PM 
> > +1000:> > License is:
> > This license appears to be non-free, since it doesn't allow modification.
> Is it just me, or has the license not been posted to debian-legal?
> Where can I find it?

On debian-devel, in /usr/doc/netbase/copyright, or right here:

/************************************************************************
* Copyright 1995 by Wietse Venema.  All rights reserved.  Some individual
* files may be covered by other copyrights.
*
* This material was originally written and compiled by Wietse Venema at
* Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, in 1990, 1991,
* 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
* provided that this entire copyright notice is duplicated in all such
* copies.
*
* This software is provided "as is" and without any expressed or implied
* warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of
* merchantibility and fitness for any particular purpose.
************************************************************************/

It only mentions redistribution and use, but doesn't restrict it to
"verbatim" redistribution.

Anyway, it's about time I sent Wietse some patches, so I've asked for
this to be clarified as well.

Cheers,
aj

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