This package was debianized by Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> on
Mon, 10 Jan 2000.

It was downloaded from ftp://trn.sourceforge.net/pub/trn/

Upstream Authors: Wayne Davison and others

Copyright:

  This software is Copyright (C) 1991-2000 by Wayne Davison. 
  Portions Copyright (C) by Clifford A. Adams, Stan Barber, Larry Wall,
  and others.  All rights reserved.

  Permission is hereby granted to copy, reproduce, redistribute or
  otherwise use this software as long as:  there is no monetary profit
  gained specifically from the use or reproduction of this software, it
  is not sold, rented, traded or otherwise marketed, and this copyright
  notice is included prominently in any copy made.  Software bundlers
  who include trn among other diverse applications are exempt from this
  restriction, as long as the distribution includes trn's source code
  (including this license).

  The authors make no claims as to the fitness or correctness of this
  software for any use whatsoever, and it is provided as is. Any use of
  this software is at the user's own risk.

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It is worth noting that this licence renders trn non-free according to the
Debian Free Software Guidelines. Specifically, it does not allow
redistribution for commercial purposes, and so fails point 6 of the DFSG
("No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor"). CD vendors who ship source
and binary CDs should be safe in including trn4, due to the exemption above
(though I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice). Automatically
building trn4 for other architectures appears to be safe (if this changes,
contact nonfree@releases.debian.net).

The author of trn, Wayne Davison, has expressed a desire to eventually
relicense it under the BSD licence (minus the advertising clause).
Unfortunately, this will have to wait until certain old code from other
sources is removed.

In a private e-mail, the author told me that he considers the trn FAQ
(/usr/share/doc/trn4/FAQ.html) freely distributable.

