This package was debianized by:

    Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> on Wed, 1997-10-01 16:19:01 -0400.
    Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica@probeta.net> on 2011-02-10 10:50:00 +0100.

It was downloaded from:
    http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/projects/splitvt/

Upstream Author:

    Sam Lantinga <slouken@devolution.com>

Copyright:

    Copyright (C) 1993 Sam Lantinga

License:

    The following copyright notices can still be found in the source code:

        /*  utmp.c    Shareware Copyright by Sam Lantinga        10/6/93 */

    That is a historical relic, though. The current copyright of splitvt is the
    GPL-2; the text to which can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 on a
    Debian system.

    Before the copyright was expressly changed to the GPL, I wrote and asked the
    author about copyright. He replied:

     Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:39:18 -0700                                            
     From: Sam Lantinga <slouken@domo.ccnet.com>                                     
     To: Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>                                                
     Cc: slouken@mongoloid.devolution.com                                            
     Subject: Re: splitvt copyright                                                  
     X-Mailer: My Mailer 1.5  <slouken@devolution.com>                               
  
     > I've never heard of no fee shareware before. What restrictions does that
     > place on the software? Can it be put on a cd with other software (such as a
     > linux distribution) and sold for profit? Can it be used by anyone, for any
     > purpose? If so, why don't you just place it under the GPL?
 
     Consider it GPL'd.  I wrote it before I was aware of the GPL, and haven't
     done much work on it in quite a while.
 
     > At this point, I'm not sure if splitvt's copyright will let it go in our
     > main distribution, that is sold on cd, or not. Awaiting your clarification..
                                                                                 
     You are more than welcome to put splitvt in the Debian distribution.
     It is already in Slackware and S.u.S.E.
 
     See ya!
            -Sam Lantinga                           (slouken@devolution.com)
 
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     Author of Linux Maelstrom -
             http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/
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