Re: Seperate DEB package for pico
No I haven't asked permission but another Debian developer was going
to. I think I'll ask him how he's getting along with that.
If anyone is really worried about the license, they can download the
source, apply the Debian diffs and recompile it themselves. That is
completely legal.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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> Here's how I understand the license. It forbids distribution of binaries
> made from modified sources unless permission is given by the University of
> Washington. That makes it ineligible for inclusion in non-free because
> Debian won't distribute things that are only available because of special
> cases like that. But everybody that's ever asked for permission to
> distribute a modified binary patch has gotten it. I don't know if the guy
> who actually put the packages together asked for permission, but there
> have been UW approved unofficial Pine packages in the past.
>
> So, I think the license forbids its inclusion in non-free simply because
> of Debian's political stance. I guess there's not much we can do about
> it. The Debian policy makes sense, and is probably legally necessary in
> order to allow people to re-distribute Debian. The UW license doesn't
> make sense to us, but it doesn't look like UW will change it.
>
> So, I'm sure the unofficial Debian packages that I'm mirroring are fine
> and will not get us (me) into trouble. 8^)
>
> noah
>
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
>
> > Doesn't the license forbid that? Isn't that why it isn't an official
> > Debian package (not even non-free) anyway?
> >
> > I'll be quiet now.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:31:24PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > >
> > > > I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about
> > > > a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine)
> > > > that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives.
> > > > Am I imagining things?
> > >
> > > You remember correctly. I am mirroring the debs at
> > > http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/
> > >
> > > noah
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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