Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> By this definition, procmail is non-free because it does not have any
> forms that allow a reasonable person to modify it in reasonable ways.

The existence of two authors in the copyright statements suggests that
that's not true.

> It is not the definition that we use. We accept procmail as free
> because it can be modified by the author, even though it's
> impenetrable to most other people.

There's a difference between "most other people" and "no other people".
What use is the freedom to modify if nobody can make practical use of
that freedom?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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