[New pine license]

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Henning Makholm wrote:

> > >   The copyright for Pine and Pico has been updated on June 2nd and seems
> > >less restrictive, http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html.
> > >Does it still fail the Debian Free Software guidelines?
> 
> | Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual
> | agreement:
> | (a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns;
> | (b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns;
> | (c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or
> | non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the
> | packaged distribution.
> 
> This does not allow, say, selling a linux distribution including pine
> on disks (I know of at least one vendor who sells debian stored on
> IDE hard disks instead of CD-rom sets, which they should be allowed
> to be continued).

Nor on Zips, on CD-RW, on PD, on DVD, on tape...

I can't believe that they are capable of including such a
restriction after all the hassles, and all the input they must
have had.

Peter