Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0 Upstream-Name: zoo Upstream-Contact: Rahul Dhesi Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/ccic/software/unix/utils Files: * Copyright: 1991 Rahul Dhesi License: GPL-2+ Files: debian/* Copyright: 2011-2012 Jari Aalto 2005-2008 Jose Carlos Medeiros 2004 Niklas Vainio 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004 Petr CECH 1997-1998 James Troup License: public-domain Zoo was written by Rahul Dhesi. He has now released it into the public domain: . Return-Path: Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:50:26 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net To: Niklas Vainio Subject: Re: License of Zoo . Hi, the last release of the zoo archive program was marked entirely public domain, with no restrictions. I'm sure this statement will be found somewhere in the files in the sources. If not, I hope this email will suffice: everything in the zoo package is entirely public domain, with no restrictions whatsoever. . Rahul . On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Niklas Vainio wrote: . > Dear Rahul Dhesi, > > The Zoo archiving program you wrote, is part of the Debian GNU/Linux system, > in its unofficial section called "non-free". I'm asking you to relax licence > conditions of Zoo a bit to make it free software and allow it to move into > the official Debian distribution. > > Zoo licensing conditions have two clauses that make it non-free software. > Those clauses are the following: > > "(b) do not create, whether deliberately or through negligence, any > derivative work that violates the compatibility goals describe in the > reference manual for zoo 2.1," > > "(d) make the fully commented source code of the derivative work available > to me at no cost if I so request, and make no attempt to restrict the > distribution or use of this source code." > > Of course this is more of historical interest than any actual need, but > would you please consider licensing Zoo under a free license? > > Best regards, > - Nikke, a Debian volunteer > > -- > Niklas Vainio License: GPL-2+ This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . . On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".