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This package was debianized by Igor Grobman igor@debian.org on
Sat, 28 Jun 1997 17:22:22 -0400.
It was downloaded from http://www.nijenrode.nl/~ivo/circus_data/download.html
Copyright:
cIRCus is copyright (c) 1996 Ivo van der Wijk and Mark de Boer.
This is experimental software. Use this at your own risk. You are allowed
to copy cIRCus as a complete package as long as this copyright notice
is copied with it.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE
LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR
OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU.
SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY
SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING
WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY
YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER
PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
I contacted the author to clarify the copyright and here is the excerpt from
his mail:
>Having taken a look at the copyright file, I see that your program wouldn't
>fit into main distribution, unless the copyright is changed significantly.
>However, it could fit into contrib or non-free sections with only minor
>clarifications. Currently, the copyright file says the following:
>
>
>cIRCus is copyright (c) 1996 Ivo van der Wijk and Mark de Boer.
>This is experimental software. Use this at your own risk. You are allowed
>to copy cIRCus as a complete package as long as this copyright notice
>is copied with it.
>
cIRCus started as a schoolproject, and we never really bothered about the
copyright, as long as everything was distributed together.
>The part that is unclear is what do you mean by "as a complete package" If I
>"debianize" circus, it will not be distributed in the same form as the
>original
>package, but it still would include all the files in your archive. I would
>suggest to change that sentence to: "You are allowed to copy cIRCus as long as
>
>this copyright notice is copied with it." With this change, the package would
>
>be placed in contrib directory which is included on most Debian CDs, but is
>not fully supported by Debian, because of lack of source code (in this case).
>
This is fine with me.
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