Re: Editor and sensible-editor
On Jun 15, Brock Rozen wrote:
> To clear up any confusion, the Pine (as such, pico; I believe) license has
> changed and that might make it eligible to be taken out of "non-free".
A number of problems have been discussed on -legal relative to it;
most notably, that you can put it on a CD-ROM but not a Jaz disc (for
example), and you can't put it with commercial software.
That and the "local modification" business is a bit goofy; perhaps
they should consider a "you modify it, you change the name" policy
(i.e. you can't call a modified Pine "UW Pine" or "UW PC/Pine"). That
would at least edge it closer to DFSG-freeness (and would certainly
let binaries into non-free).
Chris
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