[fab] [Fwd: Free software and Fedora: Dissected]

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 23:16 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> >From spot's list:
> 
> > This license doesn't permit modified redistribution, so this is right
> > out. On top of that, Fedora _IS_ patching it, so we're in violation.
> > nothing requires aspell-nl explicitly, so moving this to FE makes sense.
> 
> I'm wondering what would make this acceptable in FE.  Other packages
> (eg. pine) having similar conditions have already been rejected.

Yeah. I'll email the upstream author and see if I can convince them to
drop the restriction.

~spot
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