On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:

> utils/base64/base64.tcl's copyright notice contains

> # See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and
> # redistribution
> # of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

> This license.terms file is not included in amsn. It appears to be the
> one at
> http://tclhttpd.cvs.sourceforge.net/tclhttpd/tclhttpd/license.terms?revision=1.4&view=markup
> which contains

> The authors hereby grant permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and
> license this software and its documentation for any purpose, provided that
> existing copyright notices are retained in all copies and that this notice
> is included verbatim in any distributions.

> As the right to modify is not granted to amsn, this shouldn't be
> distributed in main, but also of course distributing it violates
> copyright as there's no permission granted to distribute.

Er, what?  "the authors hereby grant permission to use, copy, modify,
distribute, and license" doesn't grant to amsn the right to modify?

Yes, there is a missing license statement, and that is a serious bug.  But I
don't understand the claim that the file shouldn't be distributed.

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