Re: installing pine
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:12:08PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
> > pine, pico and pilot deb's are included in woody. you'll notice that the
> > version numbers have an 'L' at the end of them. that signifies (i
> > believe) that they are not an unmodified binary and allows debian to
> > distribute the pine binaries that they want to and still comply with the
> > license.
>
> Actually is just the opposite. The pine license has always allows
> redistribution of unmodified binaries. The 'L' version number suffix is
> not needed. However, because of Debian's file system standards we
> needed to make changes to Pine. Adding the 'L' suffix to the version
> number indicates that it is a modified binary (I believe 'L' is for
> Locally modified or something). I'm not sure if the 'L' license clause
> is something new or if nobody bothered to read the whole license in the
> past before labelling it as unsuitable for inclusion.
I delved into this about the time Pine 4.0 was released...
Debian believes it would need permission from the Pine Development Team
to redistribute modified binaries, getting permission means that
Debian has rights that others do not - which makes it non-free.
later,
Bruce
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