pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)
Hi,
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 08:51:41PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> victory <victory.deb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 May 2016 21:00:48 +0200
> > Holger Wansing wrote:
> >
> > it says:
> > Where is pine?
> > Due to its restrictive license, it's in the non-free area.
> >
> > https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pine.html
> > [2010-02-13] pine REMOVED from testing (Britney)
> > [2010-02-12] Removed 4.64-4 from unstable (Torsten Werner)
> >
> > so this also needs to be updated
>
> I would remove the pine stuff completely.
>
> However, pine is also mentioned as an example for nonfree software in
> ftparchives.sgml:
>
> <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 .
Probably there are more examples.
Bye,
Joost
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