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Re: Intent to package cforge and code-medic



On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:58:15PM -0600, David Welton wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:53:15PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:51:13PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
> > 
> > > I talked with the author a while ago, and tried to nudge him towards
> > > the GPL.  Since you cannot distribute changes, make sure to get him to
> > > put the debian directory into the main sources (or something like
> > 
> > This is unacceptable.  
> 
> No, just non-free - which may be unacceptable to some people.

As I recall, Pine had the same problem, which is why we couldn't distribute
it.  How is this different?

> 
> I don't remember the specific license - it's a basic,
> you-may-not-modify-and-redistribute sort of thing, which is just like
> lots of junk in non-free.  I am not interested in packaging this, so
> this is an issue for whoever wants to.
> 
> Long boring legal followups by people who are not lawyers to -legal,
> please.
> 
> Ciao,
> -- 
> David Welton                          http://www.efn.org/~davidw 
> 
>         Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org
> 
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