/usr/share/doc/makedev/copyright is in makedev 2.3.1-93ubuntu1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 | This package is maintained for Debian by Bdale Garbee, <bdale@gag.com>.
It was downloaded from ftp.redhat.com, as a source .rpm from the 5.1 release.
Copyright:
No explicit copyright is asserted. Nick Holloway is the earliest author
recorded in the sourcecode. I queried him for an explicit statement
regarding the license status of this work, and this is his reply:
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:57:10 +0100
From: Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <199807211857.TAA19068@alfie.demon.co.uk>
To: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Subject: Re: makedev license?
> I maintain the makedev package for Debian GNU/Linux. I am about to move
> from the ill-fated makedev-1.6 to the makedev-2.3.1 derived from your work
> by the folks at Redhat. I don't see any evidence of a copyright assertion
> or explicit license statement in the source. Your name appears to be the
> earliest attached to the current sourcecode. Am I correct in assuming the
> GPL? We try to be meticulous about having our base system be compliant
> with our Debian Free Software Guidelines, so I'd like an explicit statement.
It was never explictly released as GPL, as that would have required
including the file COPYING which would have been much larger than the
actual MAKEDEV script (I was also too lazy to find out what incantations
needed to be made). However, it is intended to be used as anyone sees
fit, and the statement under "Copying Policy" is "Freely Redistributable"
(see MAKEDEV.lsm from any of the releases I made).
The more recent modifications were done by Michael K. Johnson at
Redhat. I think the understanding was that he would be taking over the
maintenance of MAKEDEV (our discussion took place last September).
The only previous history was (according to an old posting to
comp.os.linux) that I started with Jim Winstead's script.
So, as far as I am concerned, it is consistentwith the Debian FSG.
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