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Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)



Editing slip:

Justin B Rye wrote:
> 	Due to restrictions in their licenses, source code may or may not
> 	be available for packages in the "contrib" and "non-free" areas,
> 	which are not formally part of the Debian system. In some cases
> 	only sourceless "binary blobs" can be distributed (see for instance
> 	firmware-misc-nonfree); in others cases the license prohibits the
                                in other cases
> 	distribution of prebuilt binaries, but does allow packages of
> 	source code which users can compile locally (see broadcom-sta-dkms).

-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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