I came across the following while reading the wxWindows documentation (from the wxwin2.4-doc package):
We also acknowledge the author of XFIG, the excellent Unix drawing tool, from the source of which we have borrowed some spline drawing code. His copyright is included below. XFig2.1 is copyright (c) 1985 by Supoj Sutanthavibul. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is'' without express or implied warranty. This text can be found at the following URL after apt-get'ing wxwin2.4-doc: file:///usr/share/doc/wxwin2.4-doc/wxWindows-manual.html/wxwin9.htm#topic6 It is my understanding that requirement to preserve the copyright notice and persmission notice are something from a BSD-type license. Is this compatible with the GPL? Does this apply to only the documentation package or also to the others (since the code would be in the library and development packages)? I am pretty sure that all or most of the wxwindows packages are in the main part of the repository. Do they belong in nonfree or contrib because of this? I apologize if this has been asked before or if I am off base, but I am still learning my way around Debian. -Roberto Sanchez ___________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es
