> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 24 17:40:44 1995 > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 95 16:38:42 -0500 > From: "L. Peter Deutsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CDROM license > > [...] > > As it happens, I have already been considering switching from the > Yggdrasil to the Debian Linux distribution for my own use. Yggdrasil > insists on GNU-licensing, so they refuse to include Aladdin > Ghostscript on their CD-ROMs (and also refuse to include kermit), [...]
This is not true. Yggdrasil insists on distributing only software which is not any less free than the GNU-license. Kermit is commercial software, requiring payment to Columbia in order to sell it. Any distribution that does include it without paying is breaking the law. The Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License is only free to the non-commercial sector of the public. "public", according to my Merriam-Webster dictionary is "affecting all the people or the whole area of a nation or state". Whoops. Dan (I no longer work for Yggdrasil, so I'm definitely speaking for myself.) -- Daniel Quinlan Member of the League for Programming Freedom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
