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PosixSerial.py license and gcavazos?

Erno Kuusela erno-news at erno.iki.fi
Wed Oct 17 08:25:35 EDT 2001 
In article <mailman.1003293619.8859.python-list at python.org>, Richard
Jones <richard at bizarsoftware.com.au> writes:

| On Wednesday 17 October 2001 14:37, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
|| On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Richard Jones wrote:
|| > If no license is given, isn't it fair to assume that the module is in the
|| > public domain?
|| 
|| No, Copyright law states that even with no clear license or notice, the
|| file is copyright the author and he ultimately must decide on
|| redistribution and use policy. The problem here is that I can't locate the
|| author :/

| Yes, copyright stays with the author, but I didn't think that there was any 
| onus on them to state distribution and use policies.

qmail doesn't come with a license. there is a lot of material on the
net debating what that implies can done with it. i think djb has a
page about the matter too.

short answer is, iirc, that you can use it and modify it for local
use, but not sell or distribute modified versions.

  -- erno
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