On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:38:29AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:27:26PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > > I am taking this licence as DFSG OK, and will be trying to get this > > package into "main" after a tad more testing. Your help is very > > much appreciated. > > Hmm, it might not be DFSG OK until *after* you have renamed it. > Surely a Debian package is a derived product? For the Debian package, I think this is not an issue: I took the step to contact the main author back in December/January and seek permission as a courtesy, and he said:
In December, 2000, the mod_backhand author wrote to me:
> You, of course, don't need my permission to make it up into
> a debian package (given the license,) but I appreciate you asking!
> I would be delighted if you packaged and maintained the debian
> package for mod_backhand.
The debian package has not had any modified code; only the build system
(makefiles, autoconf). Is this derrived? I don't think so; the code is
redistributed in source and binary forms, as permitted (and as seen above,
desired!). ;)
Cheers,
James
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