David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Now I really don't understand. Why if Mandrake has permission to distribute
> unmodified Pine or also the permission to distribute unmodified Pine with
> patches or also the ability to distribute modified Pine as long as they ask U
> of W, then why in the world is it not going to be part of the download or
> basic distro?

  A restrictive license like the one Pine is under goes against the
  rules that MandrakeSoft has set forth for the Mandrake Download
  Distribution, which is that all the packages included have to have a
  license as free as the GPL or more. Anything more restrictive than
  GPL is out of the game.

  Vox

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