Licenses on a few things in INN

bill davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Aug 12 19:21:53 UTC 2002


In article <ylbs8afcto.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
| 
| I have a request from the Debian maintainer to evaluate whether we can
| remove those things in the INN source tree that aren't free by the Debian
| guidelines, to make it easier for them to distribute INN.  This affects
| authprogs/pwcheck.c, which has the following license:

To ask a stupid question, why doesn't Debian remove whatever offends
them and leave this stuff where people can find it?

I don't feel strongly, but I don't like the precedent of removing stuff
because it offends someone, rather than for any legal requirement.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.


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