Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)
Oh boy, another flame war... George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Please check out the mail list archives on pine. The pine people will not allow binaries of pine distributed with bugs fixed unless they officially approve. To approve officially means a lengthy process. They are their own license PITA. I do not think you can say that since Debian never attempted to get their binary appproved. It is ok enough for Red Hat and Caldera and other distros. Last I checked they had packages. It is an arrogance thing ... it is a screw ease of use, it does not fit our political agenda thing. Are you advocating that we _not_ follow pine's license and distribute modified binaries anyway? Thus breaking the law? If you have a problem with pine's license, you should bring it up with them. Debian is just following it. -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
Re: Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)
George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Are you advocating that we _not_ follow pine's license and distribute modified binaries anyway? Thus breaking the law? No, I am advocating getting the binary approved. That's likely not manageable. What happens the next day when a new bug is submitted to the bug tracking system? What happens when a major security hole is published on the net, and it takes Debian 3 months to get yet anothet binary approved? Peter
Re: Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, George Bonser wrote: : On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : Are you advocating that we _not_ follow pine's license and : distribute modified binaries anyway? Thus breaking the law? : : No, I am advocating getting the binary approved. Go for it. Just remember this: 8.License Must Not Be Specific to Debian The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a Debian system. If the program is extracted from Debian and used or distributed without Debian but otherwise within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
