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packages with unmodifiable-sources in non-free

After reading the last thread about unmodifiable sources in core packages,
I have been reading through the copyrights in non-free packages, and I
think that some of those packages may be moved into the main distribution.

Those are:

  seyon:
"  Seyon is Copyright (c) 1992 of Muhammad M. Saggaf. Seyon is not
  public domain. Permission is granted to use and distribute Seyon
  freely for any use and to sell it at any price without reference to
  the copyright owner provided that in all above cases Seyon is intact
  and is not made part of any program either in whole or in part and
  that this copyright notice is included with Seyon. Permission is
  also granted to modify the source as long as the modified source is
  not distributed.
"
  pine & pico:
"Pine and Pico are trademarks of the University of Washington. No
commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior written
permission of the University of Washington. 

Pine and Pico software and its included text are Copyright 1989-1997 by
the University of Washington. 

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of
Washington is hereby granted, provided that these legal notices appear in
all copies and supporting documentation, that the name "Pine" is retained,
and that the name of the University of Washington is not used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission.  This software is made
available "as is".

Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the
right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington
encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applied
to the University of Washington Pine distribution.  
..."
  
  xsnow: (Author: Rick Jansen)
"Xsnow is available freely and you may give it to other people as is,
 but I retain all rights. Therefore it does not classify as 'Public
 Domain' software.
"
but Stephen Early wrote:
"The following was mailed to me by Rick Jansen:

> I'd like to include xsnow in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (see 
> http://www.debian.org/), but I'm unsure whether your copyright allows me 
> to do so. 

Distribution of Xsnow as I released it is allowed. Distribution of Xsnow
with changes is not, unless it concerns changes to the Makefile/Imakefile.

Hereby I allow you to include Xsnow in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
"

What do you think about it?

-- 
Enrique Zanardi					ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna


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