* David Starner in "Re: new version of pilrc with strange license * addition" dated 2000/06/10 22:27 wrote: > This is not only not free, I don't even think it's distributable in > non-free. Yes, you can derive a work but only if it "is not > considered a competing product to the PilRC distribution", which I > would take to mean that it does something totally different from > PilRC. My suggestion is to (a) discuss why this license is so nasty > with the author and (b) explain why Debian won't carry it (Debian > proper or non-free). You may want to consider forking the program. > > If you need some more discussion on the license before discussing it > with the author, forward the whole thing to debian-legal, and I, at > least, will dissect and discuss, if no one else will. Apparently the author got enough resistance from all sides and decided to change the license to GPL. -- Ashley Clark GCS/M d- s:-- a-- C++$ UL++++$ P+>+++ L+++ E W++ N+ o K++ w O M V-- PS+(++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++(+++) t* 5+ X+ R* tv b+ DI++ D G e* h* r++ y+ finger aclark@ghoti.org for GPG public key http://ghoti.org/
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