On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 04:09:29PM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote: > > I want to collect some of those scripts on a purely subjective and > biased basis, and turn them into a Debian package, so that users can > have a nice collection without having to go searching. Tell me if you > think it's superfluous.
it is certainly a nice idea > > Copyright and licensing: That's a problem. The scripts are freely > available on the web, but most of them don't bear any licence. No > licence usually means no right to use and distribute. Is there any > reason I can ignore this problem? Or should I rather contact all the > authors of individual scripts? You definitly should contact authors. The alternative is either to make an installer package (that downloads the scripts and builds a debian package out of them), or do not put the package into debian - you can distribute it from your homepage at your own legal risk. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
