On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:59:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > unfortunately treetool is non-free because there is neigther a > > license nor any upstream author available. > > Uh, if there's no license we have no business shipping it at all. > > Even in non-free. > > Please ask debian-legal if you need clarification of this. We have explicite permission:
Thanks for your interest in treetool. While treetool is "free"; some portions are copyright the University of Illlinois. I am currently working on getting permission from them to obtain clear rights to the package; in the meantime, I cannot place the program under the GNU license (which is my desire). I do have permission to distribute the program, so you are welcome to include it under the "non-free" area of Debian Linux. When these issues are cleared up, I will place the package under the GNU license and let you know. Regards, Mike McCaughey Click! Computer Services, Inc. Thanks for your remark Andreas.