[Mageia-dev] fatback - can we distribute it?

Fri Mar 2 06:24:02 CET 2012

On Friday 02 March 2012 02:08, Barry Jackson wrote:
+> I have uploaded fatback to svn but would like a review regarding the 
+> license or rather the manual wording re. it's use before submitting.
+
+I did a "grep -i license" and found that everywhere where the GPL is mentioned, which is 5 files and the COPYING, is version 2, not v1 as you have in the spec License tag. You should fix that.
+
+As to the wording in the manual, here are my thoughts on this.
+Either it is in the Public domain, or it is not. They can't put it in the public domain /and/ place restrictions on who can use it.
+Besides, works of the US Government isn't protected by Copyrights.
+http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105
+
+
+Debian have decided to exclude it due to it's unresolved status.
+http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/forensics-devel/2010-January/001527.html
+
+
+-- 
+Johnny A. Solbu
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