This package was debianized by Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> on
September 7-21, 2003.

It was downloaded from
  http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibclean/bibclean-2.11.4.tar.gz

Upstream Author:
  Nelson H. F. Beebe

Copyright:
  The upstream tarball contains no copyright notices, but the
  following email from the author makes it clear that it is intended
  to be "in the public domain, and freely distributable and
  modifiable":

Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:43:14 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
To: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu
X-US-Mail: "Center for Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, 110
        LCB, University of Utah, 155 S 1400 E RM 233, Salt Lake City, UT
        84112-0090, USA"
X-Telephone: +1 801 581 5254
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X-URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe
Subject: Re: Request for license clarification for bibclean
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:14:26 +0200
Message-ID: <CMM.0.92.0.1064068994.beebe@psi.math.utah.edu>

Thanks for your query about the licensing issue with bibclean.

I am of course happy to see bibclean used and freely distributed.  In
the past, I have not placed explicit licenses on my software packages,
expecting them to be consider in the public domain, and freely
distributable and modifiable.  However, at the urging of Karl Berry
and Richard Stallman in their response to instances of unscrupulous
reuse of free software, I have starting adding explicit GPL licensing
as new package releases come out.  It is not practical to retrofit
such licenses into older releases.

The next release of bibclean will have such a license.

I am at the tail end of a year-long book project, so many of my
software projects have been delayed.

Recently, I found some time to work on the next version of bibclean,
which is primarily polishing of packaging, and enhancing portability
even further.  That version will be bibclean-2-14, but it is quite
likely that it won't be out before late fall this year.

It would therefore make sense to delay your Debian packaging until
then.  In the meantime, you can continue to point people to the
official archive at

	ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/bibclean
	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibclean

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- Center for Scientific Computing       FAX: +1 801 581 4148                  -
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- 155 S 1400 E RM 233                                                         -
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