Package: makedev / 2.3.1-97
Header
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: MAKEDEV
Source: ftp.redhat.com (source .rpm from the 5.1 release)
Comment: there are releases 3.x at https://people.redhat.com/nalin/MAKEDEV/
Files
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? Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk>
1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>
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GPL-2 | No explicit copyright is asserted. Nick Holloway is the earliest author recorded in the sourcecode. I queried him for an explicit statement regarding the license status of this work, and this is his reply: . Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:57:10 +0100 From: Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk> Message-Id: <199807211857.TAA19068@alfie.demon.co.uk> To: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Subject: Re: makedev license? . > I maintain the makedev package for Debian GNU/Linux. I am about to move > from the ill-fated makedev-1.6 to the makedev-2.3.1 derived from your work > by the folks at Redhat. I don't see any evidence of a copyright assertion > or explicit license statement in the source. Your name appears to be the > earliest attached to the current sourcecode. Am I correct in assuming the > GPL? We try to be meticulous about having our base system be compliant > with our Debian Free Software Guidelines, so I'd like an explicit statement. . It was never explicitly released as GPL, as that would have required including the file COPYING which would have been much larger than the actual MAKEDEV script (I was also too lazy to find out what incantations needed to be made). However, it is intended to be used as anyone sees fit, and the statement under "Copying Policy" is "Freely Redistributable" (see MAKEDEV.lsm from any of the releases I made). . The more recent modifications were done by Michael K. Johnson at Redhat. I think the understanding was that he would be taking over the maintenance of MAKEDEV (our discussion took place last September). . The only previous history was (according to an old posting to comp.os.linux) that I started with Jim Winstead's script. . So, as far as I am concerned, it is consistentwith the Debian FSG. . -- `O O' | Home: Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/ // ^ \\ | Work: Nick.Holloway@parallax.co.uk | debian/* |
1996-1997 Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com>
1997 Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@debian.org>
1997-2012 Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
2004 Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
2012 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
2012 Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
2013 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
2018 Matthias Klumpp <mak@debian.org>
2020 Holger Levsen <holger@debian.org>
2022 Guilherme de Paula Xavier Segundo <guilherme.lnx@gmail.com>
2022 Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <eriberto@debian.org>
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License: GPL-2
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