Re: pine (was: Re: debian-faq: patch5 to remove some outdated content)
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?
Holger
>
> > Probably there are more examples.
>
> Do things like nvidia-kernel-dkms count?
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