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  From: David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
  To  : Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:20:21 +0930

Re: ADSL Shaper

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Well,

> As my script (and Ryan's) are derivative works I assume that it's
> covered under the GPL too.

Section one of the GPLv2.0:

- ---
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.
- ---

..which means that you're not really distributing under the terms and
conditions of the GPLv2 (and the GPLv1 has a similar clause). 

I know that I'm being pedantic but once you start distributing stuff the
GPL starts to bite; and the Debian guys would probably state that you're
in contravention of their policies not having such a boilerplate on the
product.


DSL

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