Re: pine in other distributions?
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, David Weinehall wrote:
> Thus we are free to distribute even a patched Pine,
No! Anyone is allowed to _locally_ modify Pine, but there's no statement
about distributing such modified versions. And "Redistribution of this
release is permitted as follows [...]" of course only covers "this
release" as provided from U. of Washington.
> We'll still have to keep it in the non-free area, of course, as it's a
> BSD-style license, but...
When did the BSD license change to non-free? From the Debian Policy
section 2.1.1.:
Example Licenses
The ``GPL,'' ``BSD,'' and ``Artistic'' licenses are examples of
licenses that we consider _free_.
Thomas
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