Package: alpine
Version: 2.00+dfsg-6
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 2.1.3
User: gnewsense-...@nongnu.org
Usertags: gnewsense libreplanet
The file pico/msmem.c contains the following comment:
===========
* This code originally written by Stephen Chung and posted to a Usenet news
* group. I've modified them for use in Pine. The author says:
*
*
* Copyright (C) Stephen Chung, 1991-1992. All rights reserved.
*
* Afterwords
* ----------
*
* Theoretically, you are required to obtain special approval from me (because
* I copyrighted these routines) if you want to use them in your programs.
* However, I usually don't really care if you are not using these routines in
* a commercial, shareware etc. product.
===========
Even when ignoring the vague and confusing words in the last sentence
("usually", "really", "not") I understand this to only give permission to
use and distribute the code verbatim. It doesn't say anything about modifying
or distributing modified versions, meaning that it's not allowed (although the
Pine developer didn't seem to see it that way). This violates DFSG.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0.2
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38.6-libre-planet (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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