Pine in Hoary

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 08:54 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:10:42 +0000, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> > It's not Stallman that cries, it's likely to be the University of
> > Washington. Distributing modified versions of Pine is illegal, which
> > means there's no way to provide security fixes or make it install itself
> > in a sensible place.
> 
> Not illegal if you have permission! It's perfectly legal to
> redistributed unmodified versions.

We don't want to distribute unmodified versions. Distributions exist to
integrate and support software. That can't be done if it's unmodifiable.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org