Tip stands for Tip isn't Pico, and is a GPL'd Pico clone, written from scratch. My attention was caught by Tip thanks to the "freedomization task list" in debian-devel, and I have been in contact with the upstream maintainer since then. Development is going smoothly, and tip can be used as a complete Pico replacement at this moment. It can be used as Pine's default editor, while a free Pine clone isn't available, or with Mutt's Pine-mode, or whatever. I think this is a cool piece for Debian, as it provides an(other) alternative to non-free Pico. From debian/control: Description: free Pico clone with some new features TIP stands for TIP Isn't Pico, and is a free replacement for Pico, the default Pine editor. Pine is copyrighted under a slightly restrictive license, that makes it unsuitable for Debian's main section. TIP is an effort to provide a Pico-like editor, but also includes some features that were missing in the original, such as 'search and replace' or 'goto line #'. I asked for comments in debian-mentors about how to make users aware of the availability of a free package that replaces a non-free one that they already were using. One idea was to make Pine Recommend: tip | pico, and that sounds fair enough. Any other? Thanks, Jordi
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