Ken Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>redhat (and the others) conveniently ignore this little license issue
> No you are confusing Debian rules with Open Source. Debian adheres to
> strict filesystem layout rules, but Open Source is looser. Pine is Open
> Source, it just cannot be distributed with modified layout. As for
> economic benefit, I doubt if pine brings in the dollars. Conspiracy
> theories are cheap.
No I think you haven't got your facts straight. Here's the bit from Pine's
lincense:
: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
: documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of
: Washington is hereby granted, provided that these legal notices appear in
: all copies and supporting documentation, that the name "Pine" is retained,
: and that the name of the University of Washington is not used in
: advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
: without specific, written prior permission. This software is made
: available "as is".
:
: Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the
: right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington
: encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applied
: to the University of Washington Pine distribution.
The second paragraph implies that binary distributions that are modified
in any way at all is forbidden without prior permission from UW. This does
not count as free software in my books, and the DFSG agrees with me.
Unless RedHat has formally obtained permission from UW, they're violating
this license. Any other vendor distributing modified binaries (even moving
or adding a single file would count) without permission from UW is also
breaking the license.
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