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Re: Pine installation sequence



Frederik <frederik@maui.kotnet.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>> Just go to http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ and get the binary
>> packages.  You won't need to deal with building from source.  These are
>> unofficial packages, but they're made by an official Debian developer
>> and are high quality.
>
>I believe that is not allowed by the license.

I understood that the University of Washington had told the developer in
question that they didn't mind this specific use. Of course, this is not
good enough for Debian, since a licence saying that we can distribute
the modified software but nobody else can is on the unpleasant side of
non-free.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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