bug#291: bug#291: License terms are stated here

Nick Moffitt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
begin  Heather Stern  quotation:
> This document is in the public domain.  The author requests, however,
> that semantically altered versions are not distributed without
> permission of the author, assuming the author can be contacted without
> an unreasonable effort.
> 
> In particular, please don't sent patches for this list to Linus, at
> least not without contacting me first.
>  
>   ... this isn't consistent with my sense of the magic words "public
>   domain."

	Fortunately he lists it as a *request* and not a
*requirement*.  The "don't send patches" clause looks like a
clarification of the *request*.  Thus, the license ends at "This
document is in the public domain." and the rest of the text is a
little letter to the public with no effect on rights granted.
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