Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:42:36AM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> 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
>
I now know I'm a terrible proofreader. Most of the points were
obvious, and I missed them.
-- hendrik
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