Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: splitvt Upstream-Contact: Sam Lantinga Source: http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/projects/splitvt/ Files: * Copyright: Copyright (C) 1993 Sam Lantinga License: GPL-2 Comment: 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-2; the text to which can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 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 To: Joey Hess Cc: slouken@mongoloid.devolution.com Subject: Re: splitvt copyright X-Mailer: My Mailer 1.5 . > 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) . -- Author of Linux Maelstrom - http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/ -- Files: debian/* Copyright: Copyright (C) 1997 Joey Hess Copyright (C) 2011 Mònica Ramírez Arceda License: GPL-2 License: GPL-2 This program 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 program 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 package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA . On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.