discuss: mail to nonfree authors
Subject:
Re: mail to nonfree authors
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
7 Dec 2001 06:49:36 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112062348140.14031-100000@commandprompt.com>
Hello,
On this email, it should be clearly defined that the we are discussing fre
in the "Debian/GNU" sense.
Many of these authors probably consider their work free already.
J
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, David Lawyer wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:52:38PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
>> When is that mail to non-free authors going out, Guylhem?
>
>Please don't do this unless you are really sure that you are mailing to
>authors that have non-free licenses which are non-free in the Debian
>sense. That means mainly that they must be modifiable to be free. I
>think my licenses are cataloged as non-free when they are actually free.
>All 4 of mine are shown in the database as LDPL when they are actually
>my own license. They are free in the Debian sense.
>
> David Lawyer
>
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