Re: Quake is GPL
[And again: STOP SENDING ME CCs!]
On 99-12-25 Colin Walters wrote:
> Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org> writes:
> > Yeah but this put's more load on the FTP- and Mirror-Maintainer and I
> > think they are not quite happy about this extra load. So why can't we
> > use a solution like we did with qmail?
> I think this is a different situation. With qmail, the license itself
> prohibits binary redistribution. Quake's distribution is only
> restricted in certain countries, while qmail's distribution is
> restricted in all countries. The situations are not analogous.
Even if the situation is different, why can't we use a solution like we
did with qmail? I know that the situation is different, but I think it's
a reasonable solution for such problems.
Ciao
Christian
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