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 ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null