Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)

1998-12-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
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

Re: Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)

1998-12-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
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

Re: Pine license and other GPL rants (Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?)

1998-12-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
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