Henning Makholm wrote: > > > The copyright for Pine and Pico has been updated on June 2nd and seems > > >less restrictive, http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html. > > >Does it still fail the Debian Free Software guidelines? > > | Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual > | agreement: > | (a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns; > | (b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns; > | (c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or > | non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the > | packaged distribution. > > This does not allow, say, selling a linux distribution including pine > on disks (I know of at least one vendor who sells debian stored on > IDE hard disks instead of CD-rom sets, which they should be allowed > to be continued).
Nor on Zips, on CD-RW, on PD, on DVD, on tape... I can't believe that they are capable of including such a restriction after all the hassles, and all the input they must have had. Peter