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Re: pine will become a `virtual' package

http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/current-bull/index.html says:

In March of 1996, the Pine developers released a new version with new usage
restrictions.  The new terms do not permit everyone to redistribute, and do
not in general permit distribution of modified versions.  Either restriction
would be enough to prevent Pine from being free software.  This and
subsequent versions are off-limits for the free software community.

pine copyright says:

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.


I don't know why GNU says that the new terms do not permit everyone to
redistribute.  Surely they aren't refering to the qualification that
prevents using UW's name?  Distribution of modified versions is
another story.  The copyright explicitly states that that right is not
given, though it is "encouraged" (whatever that means).  They could
stop encouraging it at any time.

Thus my interpretation is that we are permitted to distributed
modified versions, but UW reserves the right to withdraw that
permission retroactively.  Obviously this is not a very friendly
license, but I believe we can distribute modified versions in
non-free.


Guy


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