Pine in Hoary

[Le grand pinguin]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:54:57AM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:10:42 +0000, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 20:15 +0000, Baza wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah, I know Stallman cries every time I use it.
> > 
> > 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.

Please read the post you comment on. The complaint is that you:
 a) can't provide security fixes without prior getting permission
    by the UoW. Sound's like you seldom dealt with University copyright
    departments (it tends to be nightmarish). So a known security
    fix might stall on an unresponsive university clerk.

 b) you can't provide a distribution compliant package that installs
    intp more sane places without much paperwork.


     Ralf Mattes

> Eric.
> 
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