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Update to RDist License Discussion

Posted by Roblimo on from the that-was-a-really-nice-gesture dept.

Dennis Heltzel writes "MagniComp just changed their license (again) to freely allow distribution with Linux Read the news here. I wonder if RedHat will do an errata to their errata. " (This change was posted today, 17 July, 1999.)

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  1. These guys need a little education, I think by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4
    Their new license is very clearly not conformant with the Open Source Definition. Certainly this won't get into Debian, I doubt Red Hat would be interested either.

    I'll try to get them interested in an OSD-compliant license. However, there are perfectly up-to-date versions of rdist that are real free software, and there are several good replacements for rdist, too.

    Thanks

    Bruce Perens

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    Bruce Perens.