Re: Removal of Packages from Hamm (!)
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 10:55:33AM -0400, Brian White wrote:
> > ircii 21683 ircii: ircii is non-free! [26] (Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@debian.org>)
> I get the impression that ircII is and will be non-free. I have tried to
> contact a few different ppl to not much luck. Well I hope we will get free
> alternatives soon. Anyway, how can we move ircII to non-free? This will
> close the Bug.
So, the phrase in question is:
> Versions 2.2pre8 and above are copyright (c) 1992-1996
> matthew green. Any modifications to this code may be
> redistributed with this copyright attached.
I see 'modify' and 'redistribute'... This right has been exercised by
many, many people, for such projects as epic, bitchx, and other ircII
derivatives. This is de facto free software. I'm not entirely sure
that I even see how this license violates the DFSG. However, I'm not
a lawyer, and I'm not even an "I'm not a lawyer, but" ;-))
Thanks,
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David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw
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