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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the
> right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington
> encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applied
> to the University of Washington Pine distribution.
>
> ...
>
> Someone in Debian saw that second paragraph and thought "gee, we make a
> patch file to create our package so we must have a derivative work".
> We have to distribute the debianization as a separate file in source form
> only.
>
> I think that is incorrect and I further suspect that nobody contacted
> washington.edu to make sure.
I contacted washington.edu and they really do not want binaries to be
distributed if they do not "approve" the patches *first*.
If we do not have the freedom to apply whatever patches we like, including
security or bug fixes, without an approval from the University of
Washington, then we will have to distribute the patches without the
binaries.
I will not accept a special permission which allow us to distribute only a
"certain" release of pine. This is the only way to keep intact our
"freedom to patch".
> Nowhere does it say in that copyright that you can not distribute a binary.
It does. A binary produced from patched sources is a derivative work.
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