On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Steve Snyder wrote: > Pine has not yet been removed from RHL. However it is among those > packages listed beneath the "The following packages have been deprecated, > and may be removed from a future release of Red Hat Linux" heading in the > release notes. > > The reason given is not political (why do people always jump to suspect > conspiracies?), but a result of the license Pine is released under. > Apparently it is not 100% GPL-compatible. I don't think GPL is the issue, since a RH distribution is only an aggregation of various apps, some GPL, all free-of-charge. Pine's license explicitly allows this, as does GPL. The issue is probably the original-source+patches redistribution requirement. But: 1. Under what scenario can Red Hat be sued? 2. Who would do the suing? In the absence of a plaintiff, there is no problem. It looks like a case of preemptive CYA, probably unnecessary. Chris
