Re: NCSA Mosaic
I see you point about the license terms. I thought
Mosaic was public domain by now. It statically links
with libjpeg, libpng, libz, and libwww which are all
GPL/LGPL'd if I'm not mistaken. I'm using it for the
time being until Amaya or Mozilla is working and I
thought other folks might have the same use for it.
--- Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
> Being Mosaic nonfree software that depends on other
> nonfree software (motif), I don't really think it's
> a good idea to support it with a Hurd port or a
> package inside Debian.
>
> Please take a look at the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines:
>
>
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines
>
> Quoting mosaic's COPYRIGHT file:
>
> "The UI grants you (hereafter, Licensee) a license
> to use the Software
> for academic, research and internal business
> purposes only, [..]"
>
> Breaks DFSG #6
>
> [..] without a fee.
>
> Breaks DFSG #1
>
> "if Licensee distributes
> any derivative work based on or derived from the
> Software, then
> Licensee will (1) notify NCSA regarding its
> distribution of the
> derivative work, and (2) clearly notify users that
> such derivative
> work is a modified version and not the original NCSA
> Mosaic
> distributed by the UI."
>
> Breaks DFSG #3
>
> This license is completely against our principles.
> Please
> don't support it, there are lots of free browsers in
> Debian
> we can port to the GNU Hurd.
>
> Issue 'apt-get search --names-only browser' for a
> full list.
>
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