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The xforms.5 man page was extracted from the libforms1 source package and
is distributed under the LGPL. (See /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL)
The forms.ps PostScript file is from:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/xforms/forms.ps.gz
The HTML docs are older (Version 0.88 - Updated November 20, 1997) and are
from:
http://www.westworld.com/~dau/xforms/xforms-html.088.1221.tar.gz
They are available on-line at:
http://www.westworld.com/~dau/xforms/forms.index.shtml
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Copyright (c) 1996-2000 by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 by T.C. Zhao and Steve Lamont
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
No part of this document may be reproduced, in any form or by any means,
without permission from the authors. Permission to produce hardcopies in
its entirety for private use is granted.
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The above copyright doesn't allow distribution. This was clarified by the
first author. The permission was granted in September 2003 and is archived
here with the XForms mailing list. I had asked the question here:
http://bob.usuhs.mil/pipermail/xforms/2003/000030.html
and here is the sought-after permission:
http://bob.usuhs.mil/pipermail/xforms/2003/000053.html
I quote the permission here:
: Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 07:07:59 -0700 (PDT)
: From: "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com>
: Subject: Re: [XForms] Re: XForms: Documentation
: To: Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
: Cc: xforms@bob.usuhs.mil
: Sender: xforms-bounces@bob.usuhs.mil
:
: To subscribers of the xforms list
:
:
:
: Hi Peter,
:
: Please feel free to include the current manual in the Debian distribution.
:
: For the public record, I am granting the rights to all linux distributors to
: distribute all versions of xforms manual without fee in all electronic
: formats (.tex,.psf, .ps, .html) with the requirement that the distributed
: versions retain the copyright notice and version number.
:
: -TC
:
: --- Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> wrote:
: > T.C. Zhao <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> wrote:
: >
: > >
: > > Sorry for the delay and thanks for the info. GPL it is.
: > >
: > > I am currently travelling and will be back home end of September. Expect
: > the
: > > free manual in October sometime.
: > >
: > > -TC
: >
: > Thanks TC!
: >
: > Would you also mind replying to this message (and CC the mailing list
: > for the public record) and give permission to Debian to distribute the
: > current version of the manual in its non-free archive and mirrors, e.g.
: >
: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/libforms-doc.html
: >
: > This would gives us the required permission not present in the current
: > license.
: >
: > Thanks again!
: > --
: > Peter S. Galbraith, Debian Developer <psg@debian.org>
: > http://people.debian.org/~psg
: > GPG key 1024/D2A913A1 - 97CE 866F F579 96EE 6E68 8170 35FF 799E
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