Scripsit bug1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I emailed one of the authors and told him i would like to package his > program for debian, he says he wants to see it packaged as widely as > possible, the only restriction he (as copyright holder) places on > redistribution (source included) is that the name of the authors and > contributors be included and not be removed.
Try to post the exact contents of the email to debian-legan and we can discuss whether it's explicit enough to serve as a license. > Does the license have to fit into a known accepted lincense catagory, No (unless you view the DFSG as an "accepted licence category"). > or can i just state in words what he told me and put that in as the > license, knowing that it should be ok ? If the email is sufficient as a license, you should reproduce the *verbatim* text of that email in the copyright file. > I guess whatever license debian distributes it as will have to get his > aproval anyway, so maybe i should just press him a bit more and try and > get a more specific answer from him, im not sure.. You could suggest to the author that his intentions might be easier for potential redistributors to grasp if he just included a modified BSD licence (that is, without the advertising clause) in his distribution. He could copy and paste from http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license (but clause 3 of that license should be left out). -- Henning Makholm "Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det ligger i Australien!"
