Re: pine in debian
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:28:36AM -0700, 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?
>
> I'm a Debian newbee and wondered the same thing. I just
> installed the sources and built my own copy. Pretty easy
> and it only took about 10 minutes to compile on my system.
The Pine license requires that Debian get permission to redistribute a
modified binary, Debian feels that condition makes it non-free.
later,
Bruce
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