This package was debianized by Arnaud Cornet on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:55:39 +0200. The current Debian maintainer is Arnaud Cornet . It was downloaded from http://www.dagbrown.com/software/gurgitate-mail/ Upstream Author: Dave Brown Copyright: Copyright belongs to Dave Brown and is permission is granted to distribute gurgitate-mail according to the ruby license, as stated in the mail below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In message <20070105125343.GA12961@t1r.net> you write: > Hello, > > gurgitate-mail has become a fairly useful application. I am interested > in packaging gurgitate-mail for Debian. I cannot find any copyright > statement nor a licence in the source of your software. It cannot be > distributed by Debian as is. > > Could you please tell me who owns the copyright for this software and > since when ? In rubyforge there is a page about gurgitate-mail that > states that it is released under the terms of the ruby licence. Do you > confirm that your software can be distributed under this licence ? > > Do not hesitate to let me know if you need some information about > opensource/free licences. Oh goodness. I apologize for the terrible delay. Yes, I can confirm that gurgitate-mail is released under the Ruby license. If you need me to put a statement of that into the distribution, I could do that for you. The copyright for gurgitate-mail is held by myself (as per Berne convention defaults), but I have no objection to granting the Debian project permission to distribute it. --Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ruby license: Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto . You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL version 2 (see the file GPL), or the conditions below: 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the original copyright notices and associated disclaimers. 2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise make them Freely Available, such as by posting said modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or by allowing the author to include your modifications in the software. b) use the modified software only within your corporation or organization. c) give non-standard binaries non-standard names, with instructions on where to get the original software distribution. d) make other distribution arrangements with the author. 3. You may distribute the software in object code or binary form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following: a) distribute the binaries and library files of the software, together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent) on where to get the original distribution. b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of the software. c) give non-standard binaries non-standard names, with instructions on where to get the original software distribution. d) make other distribution arrangements with the author. 4. You may modify and include the part of the software into any other software (possibly commercial). But some files in the distribution are not written by the author, so that they are not under these terms. For the list of those files and their copying conditions, see the file LEGAL. 5. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as output from the software do not automatically fall under the copyright of the software, but belong to whomever generated them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this software. 6. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Arnaud Cornet and is licensed under the GPL version 2. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License, version 2, can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.