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Re: summary of software licenses in non-free



On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:57:09PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> mmix-src        part GPL. part Donald Knuth license - modified files must be
>                 renamed and clearly identified. why is this in non-free?

We probably don't have the legal right to distribute that one.  The Knuth
license imposes an additional restriction beyond the GPL, and the GPL
itself says that that means you're not allowed to distribute it.

It's probably in non-free, instead of not being distributed at all,
by mistake.

-- 
Raul



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