On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:41:47PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:10:39PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > But the content of the debian package is obtained from the website. > > (IIRC the source of the book is not available). > > Yes, but a mail from O'Reilly publisher that explicitely state that the > version I hold downloaded from the web site can be redistributed under > that terms is enough, at least in Italy where mail is totally equivalent > to paper. > > [ a good question is: is this valid also in other countries? ]
Stefano, it would be nice to include that mail into the copyright file, together with the notice. That is what i did back then when there were unclarities with the ocaml licence and i had a clarification from the authors about what they considered or not to break the licence. Friendly, Sven Luther