Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 09:45:43PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Justin B Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > > Holger Wansing wrote:
> > >> <p>Some packages are only distributed as source code due to the restrictions
> > >> in their licenses. Notably, one such package is <tt>pine</tt>, see
> > >> <ref id="pine"> for more information.
> > >>
> > >> So if we remove pine from the doc, we need another example for such
> > >> nonfree software, which is only allowed to be distributed as source code.
> > >> Is anyone aware of such software?
> > >
> > > publicfile. There is https://packages.debian.org/publicfile-installer .
> >
> > Except that publicfile isn't an example "only distributed as source
> > code". Debian doesn't distribute even that much - instead the
> > installer package *fetches* that code from upstream.
>
> Hmm, if there are only few of such packages, that topic is probably not
> worth a frequently asked question (FAQ)?
> So skip the whole sentence?
Isn't one of those packages nvidia's own drivers? That is, at least,
an important one, and may be worth a mention.
-- hendrik
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> Holger
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> >
> > > Probably there are more examples.
> >
> > Do things like nvidia-kernel-dkms count?
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