RE: Editor and sensible-editor
When I started using Debian, I was also a little startled at not having
pico.
Then I learned about joe (which provides a pico emulation via the command
'jpico'), and all was happy in the universe.
It would be nice if joe could be a main editor.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Starner [mailto:dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:55 AM
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org; debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Editor and sensible-editor
At 07:48 AM 6/14/99 -0500, Adam Rogoyski wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
>
>> Not even. pico CANNOT be packaged for Debian! The best that can be done
>> is offer the source and let you build it yourself.
>>
>> To be blunt: Tough. Convince UW to make pico free software and get it
>> into main, then convince people that it needs to be installed as part of
>> the base system. Then we can talk about adding it as a panic option.
>
> The copyright for Pine and Pico has been updated on June 2nd and seems
>less restrictive, http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html.
>Does it still fail the Debian Free Software guidelines?
Definetly. "Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, " where
as follows is not pretty much anything is not DFSG. It's not clear to me
whether Debian can distribute modified binaries, though, which is one of
the big questions.
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