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Re: Pine 4.00 termcap(Pine in Debian?)



On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Mark Mealman wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Jul 1998, Tim Buller wrote:
> >I'm trying to compile Pine 4.00 on a hamm/i386 system, and it wants to
> 
> Is there any truth to the rumor that Debian's dist won't include pine because
> of some restrictions in the license put out by Washington state?
> 
> Washington's license doesn't seem any more restrictive than other public domain
> licenses.

As I understand, the license doesn't allow distribution of modified
binaries.  hamm has a source package and a patch package which together
will produce a legal debian package of pine 3.96.  Hopefully the same
process could be applied to 4.00. 

Bob

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