Re: freedomization task list [was: Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL]
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Josh Wilmes wrote:
> I don't think the goal should be to perfectly clone pine- we should provide a
> reasonable alternative for people who are accustomed to it to migrate to
> something which is not non-free, and continue to try to get pine opened up.
> (IIRC, its license isn't very far away from being 'free', so there may be
> hope- i'm not all that familiar with the issues)
The issue is basically that you are not allowed to distribute altered
binaries. Since most/all packages in Debian are altered in at least some
way, it made distributing a PINE/pico binary package with Debian difficult
or impossible. That is why instead, PINE is distributed as a source
package and a diff, and users must compile it themselves.
>
> --Josh
>
>
> >
> > >
> > > >From the debian description of the jed package:
> > >
> > > "Jed offers: Extensible in a language resembling C. Completely
> > > customizable.
> > > Capable of read GNU info files from within JED's info browser. A variet
> y of
> > > programming modes (with syntax highlighting) are available including
> > > Pascal,
> > > Java, Perl, C, C++, FORTRAN, TeX, HTML, SH, IDL, DCL, NROFF, PostScript
> ,
> > > Basic.
> > > Folding support. Edit TeX files with AUC-TeX style editing (BiBTeX supp
> ort
> > > too). Rectangular cut/paste; regular expressions; incremental searches
> ;
> > > search replace across multiple files; multiple windows; multiple buffer
> s;
> > > shell modes; directory editor (dired); mail; rmail; ispell; and much mo
> re."
> > >
> > > --Josh
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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