[rfk-dev] Re: licensing

[Martin Pool]

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On 27 Jan 2003, Peter Gordon <pete@shagged.org> wrote:

> AFAIK, the messages themselves have been released as GPL, and therefore m=
ust
> be redistributed as GPL unless the original authors grant you a new
> license.

It would probably be appropriate to add an explanatory message saying
that programs that use the message database are considered derivative
works and therefore must be GPLd.  I think that's clear in copyright,
but perhaps programmers might not realize it.

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Martin

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