Re: pine in debian
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only
> the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that
> restrictive?
The pine license doesn't allow distribution of *modified*
binaries. Unfortunately, in order to get pine to fit in with the Debian
filesystem guidelines, some changes must be made to it. That's why it's
fine for us to distribute the patched sources.
The Pine license does offer a bit of help that potentially could address
these problems. They request that an 'L' be appended to the version
number if a modified binary is to be distributed. They also apparently
are willing to make special license agreements, but that goes against
Debian's policy. I'm not quite sure why we don't choose to append the 'L'
character to the version number in order to include Pine in main. I'm
sure it has been debated somewhere, though.
There is an unofficial Pine binary mirror that I maintain (Jaldhar H. Vyas
maintains the actual packages) that properly appends the 'L' to the
version number of the modified binaries. You can get these packages at
http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/
noah
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