Reply from Dennis Holmes

ctcs.mail (text/plain), 3.57 KB, created by Ulrich Müller on 2013-06-03 21:25:09 UTC

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From: Dennis Holmes <[e-mail]>
To: Ulrich Mueller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: ctcs distribution terms?
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 12:50:25 -0700 (PDT)

Look what Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a developer for the Gentoo Linux distribution and member of their
> licenses team. Currently we are doing an audit of packages' licenses
> and came across the ctcs package. The perl script includes only a
> short warranty disclaimer, but otherwise it doesn't say anything about
> its distribution terms.
> 
> So I wonder if you could clarify (by PGP signed e-mail, if possible)
> if the ctcs-1.4.1.tar.gz tarball can be redistributed, and if yes,
> under what license?
> 
> There's also an open bug about the issue in our bug tracker:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446616
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ulrich M?ller

Apologies for the delayed reply.  CTCS is considered part of the
Enhanced CTorrent project, so the response I've given to others in the
past is that the same GPL applies to it as to CTorrent.

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