[Rule-list] New slinky images, copyright question

[James]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 01:57:04 +0100
Martin Stricker <shugal at gmx.de> wrote and hopefully I read right:

> Devon wrote:
> 
> > I've reverted to full file names in the package lists, so the
install
> > needs the packages from the official 7.2 release. Including
updates
> > will break it. I do however also have lists generated (and a
script to
> > automate the list creation process) for a fully updated set of
> > packages.
> 
> Why this step back?
>  
> > On another topic entirely, none of the scripts to date included
any
> > copyright information. Most scripts and software I've found
anywhere
> > contain this info.
> > 
> > So, I added a copyright stanza to the top of each script, naming
> > myself and the RULE project. Thoughts, comments, objections?
> 
> Perfect, with one addition needed:
> 
> 
> 
> > # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License
> > # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> > # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 
02111-1307,
> > USA.
> 
> Link to the GPL here, I think it's http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ ,
but
> I'm not sure.

Not to be a pain but may I lobby for the BSD license to be included
as well.  Seeing as how there is a lot of code in Linux that comes
from BSD and is under that license even though people keep slaping
the GPL on it (incorrectly ) for example tcl/tk webmin etc.

thanks

James

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