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This is a Debian prepackaged version of the splitvt utility.
This package was put together by Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, using
sources from:
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/projects/splitvt/
The following copyright notices can still be found in the source code:
/* utmp.c Shareware Copyright by Sam Lantinga 10/6/93 */
That is a historical relic, though. The current copyright of splitvt is the
GPL; the text to which can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on a
Debian system.
Before the copyright was expressly changed to the GPL, I wrote and asked the
author about copyright. He replied:
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:39:18 -0700
From: Sam Lantinga <slouken@domo.ccnet.com>
To: Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>
Cc: slouken@mongoloid.devolution.com
Subject: Re: splitvt copyright
X-Mailer: My Mailer 1.5 <slouken@devolution.com>
> I've never heard of no fee shareware before. What restrictions does that
> place on the software? Can it be put on a cd with other software (such as a
> linux distribution) and sold for profit? Can it be used by anyone, for any
> purpose? If so, why don't you just place it under the GPL?
Consider it GPL'd. I wrote it before I was aware of the GPL, and haven't
done much work on it in quite a while.
> At this point, I'm not sure if splitvt's copyright will let it go in our
> main distribution, that is sold on cd, or not. Awaiting your clarification..
You are more than welcome to put splitvt in the Debian distribution.
It is already in Slackware and S.u.S.E.
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken@devolution.com)
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Author of Linux Maelstrom -
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/
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