1 This is a Debian prepackaged version of the filters package.
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
8 The jethro filter has this copyright:
9 ** Public domain. Use at your own risk. Y'all come back now, heah?
11 The kraut filter has this copyright:
17 /* This is in the public domain. Do with it as you will. *\
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:
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
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...)
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
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.
40 The ken filter is now in the public domain. Its author, Stephen K Mulrine,
41 confirmed the new copyright in this email:
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)
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?
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.
57 The ky00te filter is now relicensed under the GPL. Its author, Brent
58 Edwards, confirmed the new copyright in this email:
60 From: Brent Edwards <chipuni@hypersurf.com>
61 Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:37:53 -0700
62 To: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
63 Subject: Re: Is this the author of the ky00te filter?
66 You have my permission to put the ky00te filter into the GNU GPL
67 license. (Though the license will be far longer than the program itself!)
71 Everything else is copyright 1999-2001 by Joey Hess, under the terms of GPL.
72 The full text of the GNU GPL can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
75 The newspeak filter is now relicensed under a BSD-like copyright. Its
76 author, Jamie Zawinski, established the new copyright in this email:
78 From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
79 Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:17:02 -0700
80 To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
81 Subject: Re: copyright of newspeak filter
83 Hey there -- I'm cleaning out old mail, and don't remember if I replied
84 to this or not. Anyway, in case I didn't -- feel free to slap this
85 license atop the newspeak script (it's BSD-like, so that should work
88 Copyright (c) 1991 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
90 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this
91 software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted
92 without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in
93 all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
94 permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No
95 representations are made about the suitability of this software
96 for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or
99 The studly filter is copyright Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com> and
100 has the following license statement:
102 # just for reference, you may do whatever you like with this file.