bug#291: bug#291: License terms are stated here
Nick Moffitt <[email protected]>
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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.