Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 11:48:07AM -0500, Caspian wrote:
> > > I think that pico is more easily clonable than pine, isn't it?
> >
> > Yes. But I feel that both are necessary to clone. PINE is -very- popular
> > here, especially at universities. And it's far from free. Pico is also
> > quite popular, especially among Unix newbies and those too lazy to learn
> > something else (e.g. me ;) ) Not to break out the cluestick or anything,
> > but really guys, you -aren't- going to convince everyone to give up pico
> > and pine, and if any given distro doesn't offer them (or exact clones
> > thereof), people will be seriously annoyed. And they -will- download and
> > install pico and pine. Let's not create a distro that would tempt such a
> > wide swath of Unix users to go out and pollute it with non-free
> > nonsense...
>
> Um, why don't you have a look at the latest versions of the pine license.
> The primary reason pine is still non-free is that they limit distribution
> to CD and I think ftp because when they fixed the license last the people
> doing the fixing were told about needing to be able to distribute it both
> places.
>
> They never bothered to consider that it might be distributed OTHER places.
>
> It might just be simpler for everybody to talk to UW about it. Life would
> be much easier if they just BSD'd it or put it under Artistic (yuk) or
> something..
Read back a few messages-- RMS said that's already been tried. The UW
types won't budge.
>
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