Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do agree that we should avoid upgrading to versions he's provided which > are accompanied by statements about copyright which conflict with the GPL. > > But I don't see any valid reason for pulling prior versions out of main.
I see this as a similar circumstance to Pine. UW had very clearly given a free license, then switched to a loopy interpretation where we didn't have a license to distribute modified versions. So it got pulled from main. They changed their license for future versions -- sure, they called it a clarification, but it was a pretty big change. But Debian doesn't distribute that old pine, because -- even when the copyright holder has gone insane -- it's polite to accede to their wishes. The same action is appropriate here. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
