Re: where are pine and tin? (hamm)
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:12:34AM +0200, Thomas Adams wrote:
> I use Debian 2.0 and am missing pine and tin. I ftped the binary-i386
> image soonafter it was released and those programs aren't on it. After
> having my network stuff up and running I checked the contrib area on
> debian ftp servers but didn'tfind them there either. Why is that? Don't
> those two programs fit into Debian's idea of "free" software or what?
IIRC, Pine's licensing terms impose restrictions or disallow the
redistribution of modified binaries. There's a "pin396-src" package you can
use to build your own binaries.
I don't know why tin isn't in hamm. There's a tin package in slink you can
use though.
HTH,
Ray
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