On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:17:54AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Justification: mawk's sources have several comments stating explicitly that > it > is distributable in GPLv2, e.g.,
> Mawk is distributed without warranty under the terms of > the GNU General Public License, version 2, 1991. > The Debian changelog has no indication that Mike Brennan changed the license. > Debian's copyright notice has added > /usr/share/doc/mawk/copyright > which says > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) > any later version. > (The Debian changelog does not indicate at what point the license terms > were changed). James, can you comment on this? Is there supporting evidence for this relicensing under "or later" for mawk? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
