Hi, On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:
On IRC, Benjamin Weber pointed me to some odd situation about the "pico" and "pine" packages. They're part of the SUSE Linux OSS distribution but their license is not even near something OSI approved (not even to mention FSF).
[...] (see the original mail at the start of the thread for details)
How about dropping them from the distribution ? pico can be replaced by GNU nano (that is already included in the distribution btw), and pine.. well... anyone still use pine ? (hint: use mutt ;))
I am using elm if possible, pine else. Dropping the latter too would in no means lead me to mutt. So if destroying is the main goal, struggle on.
It's totally not a goal of "destroying", but pico and pine must be either removed from the distribution or - to the very least - moved to the non-OSS part, as they're not OSS (i.e. they're not OSI approved).
I don't want to be nitpicking, but we should care about those aspects as well (actually, both patching and redistributing pico and pine already violates their respective license).
So please try to get in contact with the maintainers/copyright owners. The recent "purity race" has both chances: to clear and to destroy. I guess if the result is "this" or "that" depends on the activity/success of those who made it a theme here. So the moaners have to prove their facilities. Almost like in real life... Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)