On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
SV>No, if Debian accepts a special permission from UW to distribute modified SV>binaries, they will never see the need to make pine free software. This might be true, but I'm more interested in the opposite question: do you seriously believe that Debian refusing Pine for that reason will actually force UW to make it free? Pardon me if I don't hold my breath waiting for that to happen ;-) SV>Perhaps Debian just cares more than others about what is allowed by SV>licenses and what is not. This has happened several times in the SV>past and should not be a surprise. I have to take your word for it, because my talks with local Debian developers and users centered more on the pine-is-crap-use-mutt kind of logic than on proper legal opinion and examples of similar decisions. I prefer Pine, so their answer is beside the point and, also, this kind of reasoning doesn't translate to Debian caring more than others, not by a long shot. Andrea. P.S.: yes, examples of similar cases are welcome, by private email to reduce clutter on the list. -- Mä muistan sen kirkkaan päivän, sen kesän ja sen valon häivän Heinä haisi, puut tuoksui, linnut lauloi vaan Ja Lada ajaa kylän raitilla, Lada ajaa ja stereot soittaa
