Your message dated Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:48:17 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#500406: mmv: Permission to modify may not be granted
by all (C) holders
has caused the Debian Bug report #500406,
regarding mmv: Permission to modify may not be granted by all (C) holders
to be marked as done.
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Package: mmv
Severity: normal
It is possible that the Debian project does not have permission to
modify mmv from all copyright holders.
According to [1], Vladimir (original author) has changed the "... copyright of
mmv to GPL."
In the same email he says " Please keep in mind that I do not have in hand
either the full GPL text or the source code of the last mmv release (oops)."
This statement makes it sound like there may be other copyright holders who may
need to authorise the relicencing as well.
[1]
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mmv/mmv_1.01b-14/mmv.copyright
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Debian Release: 4.0
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Hi again!
* Gerfried Fuchs <[email protected]> [2009-05-30 15:53:49 CEST]:
> * Karl Goetz <[email protected]> [2008-09-28 01:10:45 CEST]:
> > It is possible that the Debian project does not have permission to
> > modify mmv from all copyright holders.
>
> Things like that are always possible, in every piece of software. It's
> just that we usually listen to specific reasons and not something that
> might or might not be possible without any prove.
As you weren't able to bring up any more assuring hints on why you
think that it might not be so I only can call this a non-issue for the
time being. You are of course encouraged to either reopen this bugreport
or open a new one in the case you have found any hints on that your
feeling on the interpretation has any reasonable grounds, I am still
willing to hear them. :)
Thanks!
Rhonda
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