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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Feb 17, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:08:31PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > On Feb 17, Arwed von Merkatz [v.merkatz AT gmx.net] wrote:
> > > we have a new maintainer for the mail section, Jeremy Blosser (emrys)
> > > who recently joined us as a General Guru. The unmaintained section count
> > > seems to drop quite fast recently :)
> > > Have fun with your new section Jeremy!
> > 
> > Thanks.  :-)
> > 
> > ...and as I survey my new domain, I have to ask, why is the pine stuff in
> > here instead of in z-rejected?  For those who are unaware, the UW license
> > is non-free; cf:
> > 
> > http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html
> > http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/legal.html#10.1
> > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense
> > (look for "the license of PINE")
> > 
> > I will be looking to move mail/pine-* to z-rejected/z-mail/ unless anyone
> > sees a reason this shouldn't happen.  Also, anything in other sections 
> > that
> > is under the UW license should be moved as well.
> 
> It looks like pretty much the exact same requirement as DJB 
> (redistribution of modifications in patch form only), in longer verbage.  

Right, except UW is even more restricitve, since they limit media-based
distribution of anything.

> If that's the case, we should move DJB stuff out to z-rejected as well.

The only DJB stuff I'm aware of that's in now is netqmail, which is already
in z-mail, and daemontools, which is in net and yes should move (as noted
in bug 8027).  I have spells submitted for the rest of the qmail suite, and
they're all filed to their appropriate z-rejected sections as required.

Is there other DJB stuff in the distro now?

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