-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2006-03-23 at 15:13 +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote: > >>>>> That's fantastic! There is no problem then ;-) >>>> I'm no licenses expert - but unless this approval allows SUSE users to >>>> change >>>> the code and release their changes to the public, there's still a problem >>>> with >>>> claiming that it's OSS. >>> Martin is right. We still cannot claim that pine is OSS. > > Well, as far as _I_ am concerned, I don't care if it goes to a non oss > directory or whatever, as long as I can get it with the distro, either > paid for or by ftp.
Obviously pine is still used by some people, so just s/drop pine/move pine to non-OSS/g in my original mail. > The "hows" is something I don't understand and don't care about much. I > can not read and _understand_ licenses, anyway. It's quite simple, actually. Pine is not OpenSource Software. It is not by the OSS definition of OSI [1] and hence, it is not OSS. The U&W license violates several OSS license criterias of OSI. [1] http://opensource.org/ (and it's only "opensource" when it complies with OSI's definition of OSS, it's not a matter of "how I call it" ;)) Read my original mail for more details: http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse/2006-Mar/0351.html As I wrote in an earlier mail, it's not about being picky or "debianesque", it's just that SUSE Linux OSS is dubbed as being a 100% OpenSource distribution. And pine+pico are _not_ OpenSource. That's all. So either have U&W change their license (which I doubt, we won't be the first asking them to do so) or move pine to the non-OSS ISO. Jürgen, had any update on pine ? (seems we all agree that pico can be replaced by nano) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEIzYTr3NMWliFcXcRAhvOAJ46kmL6IxWqt0h6fJZ4kqyCVAdUgACdF+TR KQShJzp4rqhPEdHaqtQrqjc= =NbMg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
