[Mageia-dev] fatback - can we distribute it?

Barry Jackson zen25000 at zen.co.uk
Fri Mar 2 12:54:31 CET 2012


On 02/03/12 06:17, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2012 06:52, Charles A Edwards wrote:
>> Did you look at COPYING?
>
> I did, yes.
>
>> As a header above the GPLv2 license:
>
> And in the AUTHORS file it is written that the rest of the program is written by Nicholas Harbour of the DoD (Department of Defence) Computer Forensics Lab. E.G. the US Government.
> Meaning, it is copyrighted by the US government. But there is no copyright /protection/ on the software, because it is the US government which holds the copyrights.
>
I tend to agree, there should be no restriction on distribution, only a 
possible question over it's use maybe in the USA. But that is down to 
users to decide, just as with tainted etc.

I have corrected the GPL version - thanks - no idea how that happened ;)

I will await more comments.



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