-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@debian.org>, using sources from
- http://qz.to/~eli/src.html and
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/old-hsu-archive/unsorted/2/kraut.shar.gz
+<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?
> and nyc filters to the GPL? Is that correct? I'd love to move them into
> Debian proper.
-Everything else is copyright 1999 by Joey Hess, under the terms of GPL.
+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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