Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-31 Thread Jeff Epler
Files with this text were distributed in old GNU gettext (gettext-0.10.40/po/Makefile.in.in:# This file file be copied and) It looks like this odd license text has been corrected in the file Makefile.in.in from GNU gettext 0.19.4, and possibly in earlier versions. # Makefile for PO directory in

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Jeff Epler jep...@unpythonic.net writes: It looks like this odd license text has been corrected in the file Makefile.in.in from GNU gettext 0.19.4, and possibly in earlier versions. # Makefile for PO directory in any package using GNU gettext. # Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007, 2009-2010

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Ben Finney
Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch writes: I have no idea how to interpret the below license: This file file be copied and used freely without restrictions. Permission to copy is good to receive. But that grants no permission to modify, nor to redistribute; so

Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Riley Baird
Hi, I have no idea how to interpret the below license: This file file be copied and used freely without restrictions. It can be used in projects which are not available under the GNU Public License but which still want to provide support for the GNU gettext functionality. Please note that the

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 07:15:11AM +1100, Riley Baird a écrit : I have no idea how to interpret the below license: This file file be copied and used freely without restrictions. It can be used in projects which are not available under the GNU Public License but which still want to provide

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Riley Baird
a quick search trough the other source packages in Debian shows that this file is present in many of them. http://codesearch.debian.net/results/file%20file%20be%20copied/ Therefore, empirically it is DFSG-free. My impression about this license is that it might be intended as a joke.