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bug #34215: Alpine contains non-free code

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Fri 11 Oct 2013 09:58:15 AM UTC, comment #5: FTR, Debian Bug#641479 was closed on 2012-07-03; the source tarball was repacked with non-free content excluded.	Ivan Shmakov <oneingray>
Sun 11 Mar 2012 12:42:59 PM UTC, comment #4: It's no longer a blocker if it's blacklisted.	Sam Geeraerts <samgee>
Tue 13 Sep 2011 05:15:38 PM UTC, comment #3: Blacklisted in rev. 204.	Sam Geeraerts <samgee>
Tue 13 Sep 2011 05:08:14 PM UTC, comment #2: I read that as almost a permission to not use commercially. Nobody needs permission to not use code, so in fact it doesn't say (and thus allow) any of the 4 freedoms. Reported to Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641479.	Sam Geeraerts <samgee>
Mon 05 Sep 2011 02:54:55 PM UTC, comment #1: Also in alpine_1.10+dfsg.orig.tar.gz	Jason Self <jxself>
Mon 05 Sep 2011 02:54:07 PM UTC, original submission: In alpine_2.00+dfsg.orig.tar.gz alpine-2.00/pico/msmem.c has a strange comment. So Stephen Chung's approval is needed for commercial use? Copyright (C) Stephen Chung, 1991-1992. All rights reserved. * Afterwords ---------- * Theoretically, you are required to obtain special approval from me (because I copyrighted these routines) if you want to use them in your programs. However, I usually don't really care if you are not using these routines in a commercial, shareware etc. product.	Jason Self <jxself>

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Date	Changed by	Updated Field	Previous Value	Replaced by
2012-03-11	samgee	Severity	5 - Blocker	4 - Important
2011-09-13	samgee	Summary	Commercial Restriction In Alpine?	Alpine contains non-free code
2011-09-13	samgee	Category	None	gNewSense 3
		Severity	3 - Normal	5 - Blocker
		Item Group	None	All architectures
		Status	None	Upstream
		Assigned to	None	samgee