On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:11:59PM +0200, Rune Tendal Kock wrote: > Most of the files in DJB's original tarball are marked "public > domain". There seems no doubt to me that DJB has in that way given > permission to do anything to the files.
The text is clearly "You may distribute unmodified copies of the cdb package", not "you may do anything to the files". > > Were anyone else to write "You may distribute unmodified copies of the > cdb package", it would be natural to assume that they intend that you > may not distribute modified copies. But DJB is a man who is > exceptionally careful with his wordings in such cases. He writes > EXACTLY what he means. Then you confirm that he meant exactly "distribute unmodified copies". > And as he does not actually forbid > distribution of modified copies, The text "You may distribute unmodified copies of the cdb package" clearly allows to distribute unmodified copies, not modified copies. > he has not contradicted his public > domain comments. "Public domain" is not always unconditional. In this case the restriction "unmodified" applies. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
