Re: Editor and sensible-editor

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> writes:

> >   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?

> Definetly. "Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, " where
> as follows is not pretty much anything is not DFSG.

I'm not sure I can parse your last sentence, but I don't think the
license is DFSG-compliant yet:

| 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).

-- 
Henning Makholm