Re: NetBSD pkgsrc function

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:03:18PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Well, I have never used FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, but one possible
> advantage of port system seems it can distribute some applications
> which is prihibited from binary distribution by their licenses.
>
> For example, gs-aladdin can not be distributed with GPL'ed printer
> drivers in Debian but port can do it.

debian handles that with source packages that patch and build a binary.
e.g. qmail-src, pine-src and others.

of course, the packages go in non-free rather than main.

craig

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