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Re: SEUL: Stopping dreams



> 
> On 19-Feb-98 Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> - -> which brings me to this point : where does SEUL stand on pine , given that
> - -> it's non-free ? (that is, you can modify but the modified product has to
> - -> be called pine/pico) 
> 
> Generally the reason that only "free" software is in the base distro is to
> insure that it can be sold by those that want to do so.  Also it may be easier
> to say "no non-free software" as opposed to trying to keep informed on which
> ones allow re-distribution and which ones don't and which ones have changed
> their policy.

OK. So it looks like we're fairly safe with the pine/pico license since
it's very non-commercial (it's copyright  UWM). 

-- Donovan