| 1 | This is a Debian prepackaged version of the filters package. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | This package was put together and debianized by Joey Hess |
| 4 | <joeyh@debian.org>, using sources from |
| 5 | http://qz.to/~eli/src.html and |
| 6 | ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/old-hsu-archive/unsorted/2/kraut.shar.gz |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The jethro filter has this copyright: |
| 9 | ** Public domain. Use at your own risk. Y'all come back now, heah? |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The kraut filter has this copyright: |
| 12 | /* Kraut v0.9 */ |
| 13 | /* by */ |
| 14 | /* John Sparks */ |
| 15 | /* 5-5-1989 */ |
| 16 | |
| 17 | /* This is in the public domain. Do with it as you will. *\ |
| 18 | |
| 19 | The cockney, jive, and nyc filters are copyright under the GPL by Daniel V |
| 20 | Klein. He confirmed the new copyright in this email: |
| 21 | |
| 22 | From: Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com> |
| 23 | Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:00:50 -0500 |
| 24 | To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> |
| 25 | Subject: Re: filters GPL'd |
| 26 | |
| 27 | That is so. Have fun (FWIW, I have done some rewriting on them - they are |
| 28 | now in Perl, but still need some work...) |
| 29 | |
| 30 | -Dan |
| 31 | |
| 32 | > I've been told that you have changed the copyright of the cockney, jive |
| 33 | > and nyc filters to the GPL? Is that correct? I'd love to move them into |
| 34 | > Debian proper. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | The rasterman filter was pulled out of |
| 37 | http://www.xach.com/xachbot/xachbot-2000-07-15.tar.gz, which is as a whole |
| 38 | copyright (C) 1997 Zachary Beane and is GPL'd. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | The ken filter is now in the public domain. It's author, Stephen K Mulrine, |
| 41 | confirmed the new copyright in this email: |
| 42 | |
| 43 | From: Stephen Mulrine <stephen@moroder.scotnet.co.uk> |
| 44 | Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 01:06:52 +0100 (BST) |
| 45 | To: edward@debian.org (Edward Betts) |
| 46 | Subject: Re: Ken? |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [...] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | >We would like to include ken in the Debian GNU/Linux Operating System, but |
| 51 | >we need permission to modify ken if we want to. Would you be willing to |
| 52 | >relicense ken under the GNU GPL, a BSD like license, or public domain? |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Certainly, it would be an honour to have it included in the Debian |
| 55 | distribution so I hereby release ken into the public domain. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | Everything else is copyright 1999-2001 by Joey Hess, under the terms of GPL. |