On 20 Jun 2006, Colin Watson verbalised:
> It's dual-licensed upstream; I contacted upstream years ago about
> this issue (before it became particularly public that Debian had a
> problem with the licence) and arranged for the following statement
> to be added to the top-level LICENSES file:
>
> All files part of groff are licensed under this version of the GPL
> (or licenses which are compatible with the GPL). You are free to
> choose version 2 or any subsequent version of the GPL.
>
> Unfortunately, for technical reasons (see bug #196762), it is
> extremely difficult to upgrade to the new upstream release. If you
> like, I can simply include a note in the copyright file with similar
> contents to this e-mail, although I don't know if that's good form.
Unfortunately, I think that means we have to take the stance
that the old version is non-free, but the future version is freed;
unless we can get upstream to release the version in Debian with the
new license.
manoj
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