Copyright for makedev source package in Nile V2.0

This package is maintained for Debian by Bdale Garbee, .

It was downloaded from ftp.redhat.com, as a source .rpm from the 5.1 release.

Copyright:

No explicit copyright is asserted.  Nick Holloway is the earliest author
recorded in the sourcecode.  I queried him for an explicit statement
regarding the license status of this work, and this is his reply:

 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:57:10 +0100
 From: Nick Holloway 
 Message-Id: <199807211857.TAA19068@alfie.demon.co.uk>
 To: Bdale Garbee 
 Subject: Re: makedev license?

 > I maintain the makedev package for Debian GNU/Linux.  I am about to move
 > from the ill-fated makedev-1.6 to the makedev-2.3.1 derived from your work
 > by the folks at Redhat.  I don't see any evidence of a copyright assertion
 > or explicit license statement in the source.  Your name appears to be the
 > earliest attached to the current sourcecode.  Am I correct in assuming the
 > GPL?  We try to be meticulous about having our base system be compliant
 > with our Debian Free Software Guidelines, so I'd like an explicit statement.

 It was never explictly released as GPL, as that would have required
 including the file COPYING which would have been much larger than the
 actual MAKEDEV script (I was also too lazy to find out what incantations
 needed to be made).  However, it is intended to be used as anyone sees
 fit, and the statement under "Copying Policy" is "Freely Redistributable"
 (see MAKEDEV.lsm from any of the releases I made).

 The more recent modifications were done by Michael K. Johnson at
 Redhat.  I think the understanding was that he would be taking over the
 maintenance of MAKEDEV (our discussion took place last September).

 The only previous history was (according to an old posting to
 comp.os.linux) that I started with Jim Winstead's script.

 So, as far as I am concerned, it is consistentwith the Debian FSG.

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A complete copy of the GPL is provided on Debian systems in the file
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.