-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 January 2002 17:38, you wrote: > David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > vbcc is *non-free*. (The upstream author wants to keep a license that > > disallows the distribution of modified versions; I got special permission > > to distribute a tar.gz version of the source to go with the Debian > > patch.) It's almost, but not quite, lintian clean; it produces one error > > --- > > Have you considered asking the upstream to > change the license ?
I did my best to persuade him, but he doesn't want to. Besides, there are chunks of other licensed code in there; I did a code generator for it, which is BSDd; the preprocessor comes from lcc; etc. Non-free is the only possibility, I'm afraid. - -- +- David Given --------McQ-+ "We must go out and utterly crush every other | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | worldview that does not believe in tolerance and | Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | free speech!" --- David Brin, paraphrased +- http://www.cowlark.com -+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8RG+Kf9E0noFvlzgRAhuzAJ9r8nCFAL1Vx+axea4TDxwmnetrWwCg1m6w M+4XixbVT63TyYua3IzMTrw= =QXMa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
