-This is a Debian prepackaged version of the filters package.
+This is the Debian filters package.
This package was put together and debianized by Joey Hess
-<joeyh@master.debian.org>, using sources from all over, including:
- http://www.princeton.edu/~mkporwit/pub_links/davido/slang/
- http://www.mathlab.sunysb.edu/~elijah/src.html
-
-Various copyrights pertain to different files in this package:
-
-cockney filter:
-/*
- * Lex filter to transform plain English into Cockney English.
- * No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
- *
- * Copyright 1986 by Daniel Klein.
- *
- * Reproduction permitted so long as this notice is retained.
- */
-
-jive filter:
-/*
- * Lex filter to transform plain English into Jive English.
- * No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
- *
- * Copyright 1986 by Daniel Klein and Clement Cole.
- *
- * Reproduction permitted so long as this notice is retained.
- */
-
-newspeak filter:
- * newspeak.l, version 1.1.
- * Lex filter to transform plain English into NewSpeak.
- * Copyright (c) 1991 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>.
- * Permission granted for noncommercial use and redistribution.
-
-nyc filter:
-/*
- * Lex filter to transform plain English into Brooklyn English.
- * No racial or societal slurs are intended. For amusement only.
- *
- * Copyright 1986 by Daniel Klein.
- *
- * Reproduction permitted so long as this notice is retained.
- */
-
-ky00te filter:
-
-This program is (c) 1994, Brent E. Edwards. Feel free to distribute the
-complete program world-wide. (Please do NOT break apart this text file
-from the program.)
-
-This program is under absolutely no warrantee of any kind.
-
-If you have any questions about this program, please send them to
-edwardsb@cs.rpi.edu.
-
-This program is dedicated to Conrad Wong.
-
-This program is catware. If you find it useful in any way, pay for this
-program by spending one hour petting one or several cats.
+<joeyh@debian.org>, using sources from all over.
+
+The jethro filter has this copyright:
+ ** Public domain. Use at your own risk. Y'all come back now, heah?
+
+The kraut filter has this copyright:
+ /* Kraut v0.9 */
+ /* by */
+ /* John Sparks */
+ /* 5-5-1989 */
+
+ /* This is in the public domain. Do with it as you will. *\
+
+The cockney, jive, and nyc filters are copyright under the GPL by Daniel V
+Klein. He confirmed the new copyright in this email:
+
+ From: Daniel V Klein <dvk@lonewolf.com>
+ Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:00:50 -0500
+ To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+ Subject: Re: filters GPL'd
+
+ That is so. Have fun (FWIW, I have done some rewriting on them - they are
+ now in Perl, but still need some work...)
+
+ -Dan
+
+ > I've been told that you have changed the copyright of the cockney, jive
+ > and nyc filters to the GPL? Is that correct? I'd love to move them into
+ > Debian proper.
+
+The rasterman filter was pulled out of
+http://www.xach.com/xachbot/xachbot-2000-07-15.tar.gz, which is as a whole
+copyright (C) 1997 Zachary Beane and is GPL'd.
+
+The ken filter is now in the public domain. Its author, Stephen K Mulrine,
+confirmed the new copyright in this email:
+
+ From: Stephen Mulrine <stephen@moroder.scotnet.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 01:06:52 +0100 (BST)
+ To: edward@debian.org (Edward Betts)
+ Subject: Re: Ken?
+
+ [...]
+
+ >We would like to include ken in the Debian GNU/Linux Operating System, but
+ >we need permission to modify ken if we want to. Would you be willing to
+ >relicense ken under the GNU GPL, a BSD like license, or public domain?
+
+ Certainly, it would be an honour to have it included in the Debian
+ distribution so I hereby release ken into the public domain.
+
+The ky00te filter is now relicensed under the GPL. Its author, Brent
+Edwards, confirmed the new copyright in this email:
+
+ From: Brent Edwards <chipuni@hypersurf.com>
+ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 09:37:53 -0700
+ To: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
+ Subject: Re: Is this the author of the ky00te filter?
+
+ Dear Edward,
+ You have my permission to put the ky00te filter into the GNU GPL
+ license. (Though the license will be far longer than the program itself!)
+
+ -- Brent Edwards
+
+The newspeak filter is now relicensed under a BSD-like copyright. Its
+author, Jamie Zawinski, established the new copyright in this email:
+
+ From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
+ Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:17:02 -0700
+ To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
+ Subject: Re: copyright of newspeak filter
+
+ Hey there -- I'm cleaning out old mail, and don't remember if I replied
+ to this or not. Anyway, in case I didn't -- feel free to slap this
+ license atop the newspeak script (it's BSD-like, so that should work
+ for you.)
+
+ Copyright (c) 1991 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
+
+ Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this
+ software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted
+ without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in
+ all copies and that both that copyright notice and this
+ permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No
+ representations are made about the suitability of this software
+ for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or
+ implied warranty.
+
+The studly filter is copyright Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com> and
+has the following license statement:
+
+# just for reference, you may do whatever you like with this file.
+
+The nethackify filter is copyright 2004 by G�kan Seng�
+<gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> and is released under the gpl.
+
+Everything else is copyright 1999-2005 by Joey Hess, under the terms of GPL.
+The full text of the GNU GPL can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
+on Debian systems.
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