Re: Suggest a really good email client

[Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:47:23AM +0100, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Allan Streib wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Zhou wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>Pine is perfectly alright in that it's pretty easy to use.  It's not
> >>>free, but then again, the question didn't have free as a requirement.
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Pine is free as in no cost.  But it's not GPL.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Well, pine is not free, at least it does not comply to the DFSG, and
> >that is why it is shipping in non-free and not in main.
> >
> >I think the reason it is non-free, is that you have no right to
> >distribute compiled binaries or something such, so the only thing you
> >are free to ship are sources, and the user should compile it.
> >
> > 
> >
> Modified binaries. So redhat compiles and distiributes, debian 

Any debian package is a modified work, since you at least add the debian
directory.

Friendly,

Sven Luther