Re: misc/53737 (changing the licensing information of lesskey.1 and lessecho.1 to mirror that of the licensing information within less.1)

[Matthew Crooks <matthewcrks%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/53737; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Crooks <matthewcrks%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/53737 (changing the licensing information of lesskey.1 and
 lessecho.1 to mirror that of the licensing information within less.1)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 13:11:20 -0800

 Thanks for your reply.
 I was attempting to sync the helper programs with the main less(1) license.
 I'll take your advice and will bring this up with Mark Nudelman.
 On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 4:49 PM <jnemeth%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >
 > Synopsis: changing the licensing information of lesskey.1 and lessecho.1 to mirror that of the licensing information within less.1
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: jnemeth%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:49:52 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > less* is third party software.  It would be highly unethical, not to mention
 > illegal, for us to touch the licenses of third party software.  Please bring
 > this up with the author.  If the author chooses to change the licenses then
 > we'll pick it up on the next import.
 >
 >
 >