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What is so bad about the Pine license?

April 26, 2017bad license Pine

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What is so bad about the Pine license?

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The U of W license for Pine and Pico is not considered truly Free Software according to both the Free Software Foundation and the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The main problem regards the limitations on distributing derived works: according to UW, you can distribute their software, and you can modify it, but you can not do both, i.e. distribute modified binaries.