On 31 Mar 2002, Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net> wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 11:25, Pablo S. Torralba wrote: > > I have been reading the license, that I send attached, and I cannot > > figure exactly why this decision was made. > > This license doesn't explicitly allow distribution of binaries produced > from modified source files; it seems to me that therefore it fails > section 4 of the DFSG. The last time this came up (in the thread from November 1999 starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199911/msg00121.html ) it was generally agreed that this was probably an oversight and that we should contact Donald Knuth, but we didn't want to wait 3 months for a response. Since it's been over 2 1/2 years, I think we can probably wait an additional few months... I'm happy to write a letter on this subject, but are there other issues we want to address other than binary modification? I note that the Makefile doesn't seem to have a license; do I need to ask about that? From the current package, that seems to be the one file that we actually modify. Best, Dylan Thurston
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