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Re: [debian-knoppix] Software recommendations for LinuxTag DVD edition



On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:51:52AM +1200, Eaden McKee said:
> 
> Nano
> Instead of pico, which (I believe) requires installation of pine, nano 
> is exactly the same but without Pine, a friendly commandline text editor

Not that it matters, but one could theoretically distribute pico alone
in accordance with the license, but one would be in the same boat as
with pine, to wit:

You couldn't distribute binaries that incorporate fixes you'd made
yourself, only patches.

You couldn't put it on a distibution that was for sale at a profit, and
included any proprietary software.

As I said, doesn't matter, nano is GPL.

> Pine/Pico
> Useful for users who prefer pico as a text editor instead of vi.

With this, you'd have to use pine-tracker instead.  It's a Debian
package that downloads and compiles pine.  I recommend just staying away
from the whole ball of crap and do nano.  You yourself mentioned scripts
to download non-free stuff; pine/pico are in that category.


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