Re: Free Pine?

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:01:47PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> Whoa! Isn't this the program that RMS said the University of
> Washington threatened to sue them over?

I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a
related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being
violated, when modified versions are distributed.

I think that, until we get a decent answer, this should be the question
asked by anyone who gets a threat under these conditions: ask what
specific terms of the license are being violated.

Of course, if they can come up with a good answer to that question then
we'd need to stop distributing modified versions, but until then this
looks more like an author-relations issue than a legal issue.

-- 
Raul