On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:27:54PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Also--a more concrete question--is it safe to distribute (even in non-free) > programs which have upstream authors asserting broken interpretations of > their license terms?
There have been a number of occasions where Debian has accepted informal statements from authors as though they have the strength of more formal licenses, both for clarifying that a package is free/distributable and clarifying that it is not. I think an author is allowed to assert anything he wants to about the license of his code, because his assertions *define* the license. Of course, if the code isn't his, we have a problem. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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