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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:50:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: dhesi@rahul.net
To: Niklas Vainio <nvainio@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: License of Zoo

Hi, the last release of the zoo archive program was marked entirely
public domain, with no restrictions. I'm sure this statement will be
found somewhere in the files in the sources. If not, I hope this email
will suffice:  everything in the zoo package is entirely public domain,
with no restrictions whatsoever.

Rahul

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Niklas Vainio wrote:
> Dear Rahul Dhesi,
>
> The Zoo archiving program you wrote, is part of the Debian GNU/Linux system,
> in its unofficial section called "non-free". I'm asking you to relax licence
> conditions of Zoo a bit to make it free software and allow it to move into
> the official Debian distribution.
>
> Zoo licensing conditions have two clauses that make it non-free software.
> Those clauses are the following:
>
> "(b) do not create, whether deliberately or through negligence, any
> derivative work that violates the compatibility goals describe in the
> reference manual for zoo 2.1,"
>
> "(d) make the fully commented source code of the derivative work available
> to me at no cost if I so request, and make no attempt to restrict the
> distribution or use of this source code."
>
> Of course this is more of historical interest than any actual need, but
> would you please consider licensing Zoo under a free license?
>
> Best regards,
>     - Nikke, a Debian volunteer
>
> --
> Niklas Vainio <niklas.vainio@iki.fi>