Re: Editor and sensible-editor
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:48:44AM -0500, Adam Rogoyski wrote:
> > Not even. pico CANNOT be packaged for Debian! The best that can be done
> > is offer the source and let you build it yourself.
> >
> > To be blunt: Tough. Convince UW to make pico free software and get it
> > into main, then convince people that it needs to be installed as part of
> > the base system. Then we can talk about adding it as a panic option.
>
> The copyright for Pine and Pico has been updated on June 2nd and seems
> less restrictive, http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html.
> Does it still fail the Debian Free Software guidelines?
I can't find any mention of "redistribution in binary form" in that
text, thus we still can't make regular .deb packages.
Even if we could, it still sounds non-free to me. But IANAL.
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