I am looking at my screen which looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ head -5
/usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java
// Example for use of GNU gettext.
// Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
// This file is in the public domain.
//
// Source code of the Java/AWT program.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qif
/usr/share/doc/gettext-devel-0.14.6/examples/hello-java-awt/Hello.java
Name : gettext-devel Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 0.14.6 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 3.fc6 Build Date: Mon 02 Oct 2006
05:04:52 PM WST
Install Date: Mon 12 Mar 2007 05:44:32 AM WST Build Host:
ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com
Group : Development/Tools Source RPM:
gettext-0.14.6-3.fc6.src.rpm
Size : 3081894 License: LGPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 03 Oct 2006 11:10:31 PM WST, Key ID
fd372689897da07a
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Summary : Development files for gettext
Description :
This package contains all development related files necessary for
developing or compiling applications/libraries that needs
internationalization capability. You also need this package if you
want to add gettext support for your project.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
The licence for this software has me confused. If this software is
copyright, how can it be in the public domain? If it's copyright, under
what terms does RH have the right to distribute the software, and as one
to whom it's willingly supplied the software (several times), what
rights do I have to further distribute it?
The relevance to this list is that this package is part of Tikanga.
I have tried taking this up with the authors; one is unreachable at the
address given, the other didn't really address my concerns.
However, on further reflection, it's not the authors who (might) have
copyright, but the FSF so I was asking the wrong person anyway.
--
Cheers
John
-- spambait
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