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Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea



On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 13:37, MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-01-07 00:05:49 +0000 Andrew M.A. Cater 
> <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > [...] As Craig said, the act of putting
> > a package into non-free has, in and of itself, sometimes led to 
> > licence
> > changes.
> 
> Can you give a reference for that,

smalleiffel, now smarteiffel, was an example.  It went into non-free
while RMS negotiated with its authors until it became the GNU Eiffel
compiler (and is now in main).

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