On Fri, 24 May 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: > Bruce Perens: > > this situation is that it's lawsuit bait for me to distribute patented > > software without a license. If you look on Unisys web page, they say > > yes you definitely need a license. Red Hat could have one for all I know. > > I'm not suggesting that we do anything illegal. If Red Hat can have > a license, maybe we could have one too. I've sent a question to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this - we'll see... [SNIP] > Proposal: not necessarily before the 1.1 release, but perhaps one of > the many non-US Debian mirror sites could become the primary site. > Now we can maintain the full international distribution, and remove > certain packages (compress, GIF, PGP, ssh, ...) only from CD-ROMs > sold in the US. This way we can keep everyone reasonably happy.
If you really want this utility, why not make your own Debian add-on package and distribute it yourself? I like the fact that Debian strives to be a distribution free of restrictive copyrights. Syrus. ---------------------------------------------------------- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept.
