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Re: pine will become a `virtual' package

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 sanvila@unex.es wrote:

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> On 28 Jul 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
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> > sanvila@unex.es writes:
> > 
> > > But not the binaries those patches produce, which are a derivative work...
> > 
> > Derivitive?  I think not.  It is the same thing, just slightly
> > modified.
> > 
> > Look again at this paragraph:
> > 
> >       Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
> 
> You may modify it, you may distribute it, but you can't distribute it
> after modifying it.
> 
Sure you can! The copyright only requires that you "mark" the modified
version with an "L" to indicate that the modifications are "local" to the
Debian release.

You can certainly twist any copyright to appear more restrictive than it
actually is. Having discussed these issues with the Pine Developers (quite
a while ago) it is clear that their intent was not to restrict
distribution of modified binaries.

Luck,

Dwarf
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