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Re: packages with unmodifiable-sources in non-free

> From: Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>
>   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.
> "

He doesn't give you permission to distribute modified binaries.

>   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.  
> ..."
>   

Again, there is no permission to distribute modified binaries.

>   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?

He doesn't make it explicit, although he might be implying that binaries are
OK. We would like it to be explicit.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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