Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm planning to package Norm Walsh's (aka Mr. DocBook) java catalog >classes he wrote while working at Arbortext. The license simply says >it's public domain (see below). > >Don't we need something that explicitly says we can redistribute this >software?
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#PublicDomainSoftware>. "Public domain" means that the software is not copyrighted in the sense that nobody has any special rights over it (as distinct from a copyrighted work with no copyright notice, which means nothing is permitted), and you may use it freely. It's fine for Debian. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
