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Re: [leganii@surfree.com: Re: FWD: C-Kermit & potato]



On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 04:49:57PM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> writes:
> 
> > most other [GNU/]Linux and *BSD distributors, including FreeBSD, SuSE,
> > Slackware, Mandrake, etc.  Do we have a problem?
> 
> I only read it very quick but....
> 
> Problem1: I can't see any rights to modify the code, just redistribute
> it.
> 
> Problem2: If I can't distribute a program with solaris i anin't free in
> Debians sense of freeness.

The author(s) of C-Kermit are not interested in its freeness, only its
proliferation.  Its license has been modified to ensure that OS
distributors can distribute it, not to make it free.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson            |
Debian GNU/Linux               |                It tastes good.
branden@ecn.purdue.edu         |                -- Bill Clinton
roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |

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