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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Pine license (was: Re: Another new section maintainer)
  • Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:46:26 -0800

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:38:16PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> 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?

Not that I'm aware of. Sounds like you've covered it.

I did some url and license searches and didn't find anything.

Seth

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