Debian Legal summary of the Petris license Proposed The original license is available at http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/petris-0.7.tar.gz and is reproduced below.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. (however, it would be nice of you to credit me if you found anything of this useful). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We believe that this software is DFSG-free. However, there may be jurisdictions which do not honour an author's request to divest copyright. Therefore, we recommend that the author provide the option to license under the MIT/X11 license [1], if desired. [1] http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html