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Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)



Hi,

Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> wrote:
> > 	6.9 Where is the source code?
> > 
> > 	[...]
> > 
> > 	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
> > 	distribution of prebuilt binaries, but does allow packages of
> > 	source code which users can compile locally (see broadcom-sta-dkms).
> 
> I would be fine with this 
> (but setting the package names 'firmware-misc-nonfree' and 'broadcom-sta-dkms' 
> within <tt>...</tt>, as it consistent in this doc).

Just committed.

So I'm done with my changings on debian-faq.


Regards
Holger


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