pine: UW permission to distribute

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Jul 20 22:19:44 UTC 2004


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jos Vos wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:54:31AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Good News.  UW has granted Fedora Extras permission to distribute 
>>> pine, along with the ability to patch for security issues... Appended 
>>> are the important snippets in the email notification I received.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this does still not make it comply with the Open Source
>> definition, isn't it?
> 
> 
> And that's why I've been harping on what definition of opensource Fedora 
> uses.  No one has yet to (officially) clarify that.

I personally don't care, as long as it does not legally encumber us, it 
is supportable (we have the source and ability to distribute 
modifications to it), and it is legal within the USA without patent or 
DMCA type problems.

I am not aware of any problems in these ways with pine, but IANAL.

Warren





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