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Re: The "free" debate (again) <sigh>

Brian White wrote:

>What I'm asking for is to not
>disallow software from the main distribution simply because it has
>restrictions on distributing modified versions.

In other words, to allow software into the main distribution which has
restrictions on distributing modified versions.  (Yes, I think I've
stripped the negatives successfully :-)

To split this up a little further, we have the following cases:

a) a program's copyright may allow only distribution of binaries
   compiled straight from the original sources, without alterations or
   bug fixes (Is there any package which does this?)

b) a program may allow the distribution of modified binaries, but only
   the distribution of source alterations as patch files only
   (Main example: gnuplot, on which the GPL'd octave depends, so we'd
   have to remove both gnuplot and octave if we disallow this)

I'd feel doubtful about a), but b) is OK (IMHO).
-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.


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