Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Mikko Rauhala) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:20:33 GMT From: Anthony Towns Subject: IrcII License Issues Old-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:08:25 +1000 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Organization: none Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc X-No-Archive: yes X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.os.linux.announce iQCVAgUBNYUDgVrUI/eHXJZ5AQGBywP/SprHnJxfGpL64eVpQqHy+sLxgvbza238 Wot3gKL8Arn3sIOl6Hdcf88zRrVDlJjxLPH99jEC33VB4NHHJjH5FWqciQ7zN/3f UAIy78GTO3gW0u7MZspIErgs/GNaPoBQwF/VteaLUCdOALUs8xpXlXpaLWTLQ0Bc bNUZ1ab7R4k= =I7RP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- - --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ IrcII License Issues June 8, 1998 Michael Sandrof, Troy Rollo, and Matthew Green are putting the ircII code under a BSD-like license (without the advertising clause), retroactive to all versions of ircII, past and present. This action is to remove any doubt as to whether ircII is Open Source. This change was prompted by the Debian project, which requires all software in its main distribution to pass the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Several members of the project noted that the license was ambiguous in places as to whether modified versions could be distributed, and an effort was made to contact the past and present developers of ircII, Michael Sandrof, Troy Rollo and Matthew Green, in order to clarify the situation. This effort was successful, and the three agreed to retroactively assign a modified BSD license to the code to remove any doubt. The Debian project thanks James Troup and Igor Grobman for pointing out this problem, David Welton for taking the time to contact and query the ircII developers about the license, and, most of all, Michael Sandrof, Troy Rollo and Matthew Green, both for creating such a great piece of software in the first place, and for taking the time to deal with this issue. >> About Debian Debian GNU/Linux is a free distribution of the Linux operating system. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort. >> Contact information For further information, please contact press@debian.org, or visit the Debian homepage at . Debian's stance on free software is presented in the Social Contract, which incorporates the Debian Free Software Guidelines. This can be found at . Background information on free software may be found at the the Free Software Foundation's web site , or the Open Source home page . IrcII is distributed from . The new license may be found as: ftp://ircii.warped.com/pub/ircII/ircii-current/ircii/doc/Copyright - -- Anthony Towns On behalf of Debian GNU/Linux - --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: I9uR+9RqToe7Im8PnAWuQdzoJOIoCX40 Comment: Key available at http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/aj_key.asc iQCVAwUBNYHtKORRvX9xctrtAQGE7wP+KT1FzYVkw1NF7nO0pRXpDyEwHQYA2Dgy xhLAvAHuDwmlqApKJkGv34OGnbPGJnhO0VheqdPMCXkxJKne5KbmvV17YAE16/lB qjcN/LZkdKIDArSdzRlS7a02vk+Ty4HbTuWpRemgsLNpdGCgcOtoZorb2ZJzHrDo Z/rEnzdGZiA= =TU0P - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --UHN/qo2QbUvPLonB-- - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNYUDgVrUI/eHXJZ5AQH7rgQAxiyIafxQrfd3TXXaJzIxiLI3rgysA/Ey ahHyl/vff9RVALIfkkEDXLgL6B8Z+lt4hN+YX9tNFi8o04jGxlmz10Vu4+HYnuLd nBEadDDoRp6a1z0HrVwK5pcgEcTgiYz62fQUJ+pjpwPAHXnXBSI03pLrMxGakBCn SQUOXFP/L0k= =2mFl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----