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This package was debianized by Nathan E. Sandver <nsandver@debian.org> on
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 18:39:00 -0700.
It was downloaded from http://www.packetfactory.net/ngrep/
Upstream Author(s): Jordan Ritter <jpr5@darkridge.com>
Copyright:
(I've pasted this email because it contains the author's response to my
question regarding the licensing of this software. In short, he says it's
GPLed)
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:26:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jordan Ritter <jpr5@darkridge.com>
To: Nathan Sandver <nsandver@debian.org>
Subject: Re: ngrep
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Nathan Sandver wrote:
# I'm interested in packaging ngrep for use with Debian. I noticed that
# the regex.c and install-sh both have their own licenses, but I didn't
# see a license on the rest of the code (please forgive me if I
# overlooked it somewhere :). Have you licensed your own work? A license
# permitting redistribution and modification is required for Debian to
# include ngrep. If it's alright for me to package ngrep, can you let me
# know when you decide on a license?
Nathan,
I've been approached by someone from Debian before (though I don't
recall whom), and that person asked me the same question. My response was
"opensource", but obviously that doesn't fully answer the question. My
personal preference at this point is to BSD license the software, but the
regex library I used is GPL'd, so AFAIK that requires (or strongly
encourages) me to make the entire thing GPL.
I think one or two revs down the line I am going to use the Perl regex
library instead, which is under the must less restrictive Artistic
License. But, to answer your question, the license is going to be GPL for
the time being. The next revision (1.36) will reflect this.
Thanks for your time,
--jordan
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