Am I correct? Is his e-mail reply enough to liberate the non-free parts of figlet?
[ Please Cc: me on replies ] Thanks, Carlos. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:52:35 -0300 Subject: Re: Copyright license on some of your files on figlet To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think this reply is enough. By the way, I forgot to ask if you could put zipio.c and zipio.h, which have the same clauses, in the public domain too. On behalf of Debian, I appreciate your generosity in releasing your code to the public domain. Regards, Carlos. On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:34:20 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 10/9/2004 0:39:28 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > I'm the Debian maintainer for figlet. I was wondering if you could > > consider changing the license on some of the code you wrote that is in > > figlet, which includes the following > > clause: > > > > * (ii) any modifications to this source file must be sent, via e-mail > > * to the copyright owner (currently [EMAIL PROTECTED]) within > > * 30 days of such modification. > > > > Since clause (i) is also murky, could you consider changing your > > license to an MIT/BSD one, or GPL version 2, if it suits you? > > > > The files in question are crc.c, crc.h, inflate.c and inflate.h, all > > in figlet, which is currently available for download at > > www.figlet.org. > > I'm happy to release these into the public domain entirely. Just let > me know what I need to do to accomplish this. > > Regards, > Ed Hamrick > -- Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED]
