`MIT-scsh': May it go in the main distribution?
I just recieved the following email... below it is the COPYING file
that ships with `scsh'. May it go into the main distribution, or
should I see if I can negotiate a different licence?
Is this licence DFSG compliant, and if not, what parts of it are in
conflict? Help me learn this, please.
(cons.org is the home of CMU Common Lisp)
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From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Subject: scsh and CDROM
To: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.COM>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:45:55 +0200
Karl,
don't know if you received an answer regarding putting scsh on CDROM.
I maintain the FreeBSD port of scsh and Olin let me know that it is OK
to distribute scsh (sources and package binaries) with a Freeware
CDROM. He didn't want 0.4.x to be on CD, but that was a matter of
quality on his side.
Hope this helps
Martin
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