I understand that debian cannot distribute these packages in binary format as part of its distribution. I believe that this is because debian is a legal organization who's policy is not to distribute non-GPL software.
I merely post the files to my personal web site, for people to download for personal use. I believe the pine license allows me to do this. The legal restrictions relate to the fact that pine, pico, and pilot are registered trademarks of U.W. One cannot use those trademarks in a commercial setting. My internet distribution is not commercial. The legal notices on the pine website, and in the pine src dir, seem to say that I need to append the letter "L" to all modified versions. That is what I will do. To the fact that my packages will not comply with debian policy is a given. I got the source from debian. I merely followed the instructions on how to compile it. I offer these packages for people too lazy or inexperienced to do it themselves. I think this is a fair use of these packages. I will correspond with U.W. to make sure. "Use of Pine/Pico/Pilot: You may compile and execute these programs for any purpose, including commercial, without paying anything to the University of Washington, provided that the legal notices are maintained intact and honored." "Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual agreement: (a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns; (b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns; (c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or non-proprietary software for which a fee may be charged for the packaged distribution." NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > > > I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my > > web site or email them to you, however you like. > > > > I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first > > email app I ever learned back in 92 when I started college. I realize > > that it is not GPL. But if you want them, I'll be glad to post 'em or > > email 'em. It's pine.deb, pico.deb (a great text editor), and pilot.deb. > > The reason Debian doesn't distribute Pine debs is not because it's > non-gpl. It's because the license forbids distribution of modified > binaries. If you've applied the debian diff patches to the source before > you made the .debs then you're violating the Pine license agreement. If > you haven't modified the sources, then you're OK with the pine license, > but your .deb probably doesn't follow the Debian guidlines. > > noah > > > > PGP public key available at > http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html > or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > This message was composed in a 100% Microsoft free environment. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBNtSiAIdCcpBjGWoFAQE3xAP+Ox8S0HTMUwPQlMM83uL1ZE4xR2iMMhv9 > 1v6Jwn3ZPTyLBNUq03I7b4wy1HLOKaSQY+f3BmQdVqEf47jSmmES52fyKIEgdxX4 > MAKDYmlMLInetJ8xC5InwhSf8Zl87pTXJLlXkhYLvKiOoo6l79Aw1QVbpQ30NDwD > EZ9uYHVF7Q8= > =W6TJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
