Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: Source: Files: * Copyright: 1991 Steve Kirkendall License: no_restrictions Elvis is freely redistributable, in either source form or executable form. There are no restrictions on how you may use it. . ==================== clarification ================================ . From: Steve Kirkendall Reply-To: kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Subject: Re: elvis 1.4 Message-ID: <3A21A76D.CE7C4D2@uswest.net> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:14:37 -0800 Organization: Elvis References: <20001122144219.A6118@cistron.nl> . Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Hello, > > I've packaged elvis 1.4 up as "elvis tiny" to have a small > vi clone for use on bootfloppies etc for the Debian/Linux distribution. > > The README says: > > Elvis is freely redistributable, in either source form or executable form. > There are no restrictions on how you may use it. > > Did you mean that it is allright to distribute modified versions > without any restrictions as well (I assume so, but someone filed > a bugreport against the elvis-tiny package claiming it wasn't > DFSG-free) . Yes, modified versions can be freely redistributed. . Elvis 2.0 was distributed with a slightly more restrictive license, which made some people uncomfortable; that's probably where the bug report came from. Elvis 2.1 and later are distributed under the Perl "Artistic" license. Files: debian/* Copyright: 1997-2016 Miquel van Smoorenburg License: freely_redistributable No specific license was specified.