This package was debianized by John Goerzen jgoerzen@complete.org on
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:17:58 -0500.

It was downloaded from
http://www.scumby.com/scumbysoft/pilot/pilrc/index.htm

Copyright: GPL.  Details for Debian users can be found in
/usr/doc/copyright/GPL.

The author has given permission to distribute under the GPL license.  Here
is the message from him.

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Yup. GPL is perfectly cool with me.

Thanks,
-Wes
-----Original Message-----
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@southwind.net>
To: wesc@ricochet.net <wesc@ricochet.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 11:39 AM
Subject: pilrc license


>Hello Wes,
>
>I have been working on packaging up a PalmOS development environment
>for inclusion with the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.  So far,
>we've got pilot-link, kpilot, and I've just now got prc-tools going.
>
>prc-tools seems to include a very old pilrc, but the copyright of
>prc-tools seems to incidcate that everything is GPL.
>
>We have to be very careful and legalistic with the license issue.  I
>read your readme.txt file and it looks like the kind of license that
>you want is the GNU GPL, which ensures that source code will always be 
>available if anybody in the future makes modifications or includes it
>in their own creation (in that case, their entire creation must have
>source code available and be licensed by the GPL).
>
>If we could basically have a declaration from you that pilrc is GPL,
>it will make things a lot easier for us -- pilrc will be able to go
>into the main distribution, and so it will be available to a lot more
>people.
>
>FYI, Debian's basic policy is that anything that is not 100% free/open 
>source software doesn't go into the main distribution.  Our releases
>include source CD(s) for all packages in the main distribution.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>-- 
>John Goerzen                              Southwind Internet Access, Inc.
>E-mail: Business, jgoerzen@southwind.net; Personal, jgoerzen@complete.org
>Computer Science Dept., Wichita State University,    jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu
>Developer, Debian GNU/Linux                       <http://www.debian.org>
>
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