Re: pbmplus-10dec91-3
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Michael Meskes, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>As far as I can tell this package doesn't belong into non-free but could go
>into graphics. Could anyone please check that? I think we have some other
>packages with almost the same copyright in the tree.
There are two problems here: 1) It uses gif which Unisys has patent
claims on. 2) Not all of the authors of the various additions to the pbm
utilities have made a permissive copyright...
Darren
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