The Debian package is currently maintained by Roland Stigge This package was re-debianized using debhelper by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray). Previous versions were maintained by joost witteveen, pstoedit sources can be found at http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit . Copyright: PSTOEDIT Copyright (C) 1993 - 2009 Wolfgang Glunz, wglunz@pstoedit.net License: -------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. Although the readme.txt file contains a requests for CD's to be sent to the author, he assured Joost of the following: From Wolfgang.Glunz@mchp.siemens.de Fri May 2 19:16:12 1997 Message-Id: <199705021714.TAA20432@weisshorn.mchp.siemens.de> Subject: Re: pstoedit licence To: joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 19:14:51 +0200 (MET DST) > The new (2.60) pstoedit still has the GNU copyleft licence, but also > the remark: > > If you include this program on a CDROM, please send me a copy of the CD, > or if it goes with a book, of the book. > > Although I find this on itself a very reasonable request, "we" > (the Debian volunteers) cannot fulfill that requrement, and we want > CD producers to be able to just blindly copy the core part of the debian > distribution, without looking at all copyrights involved (all > programmes in the core section are GPL or similar). > > So, would you like pstoedit-2.60 not to be included with Debian > (we cannot fulfill the readme.txt requrements), or is the remark > above just to be read like "it would be nice if you sent me one of > those CD's, but it's up to you"? > I explicitly wrote "please send ..." and not "you have to". So your last interpretation is what I had in mind. So feel free to include pstoedit in your Linux distribution. No problem ! [...]