-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Here's how I understand the license. It forbids distribution of binaries made from modified sources unless permission is given by the University of Washington. That makes it ineligible for inclusion in non-free because Debian won't distribute things that are only available because of special cases like that. But everybody that's ever asked for permission to distribute a modified binary patch has gotten it. I don't know if the guy who actually put the packages together asked for permission, but there have been UW approved unofficial Pine packages in the past.
So, I think the license forbids its inclusion in non-free simply because of Debian's political stance. I guess there's not much we can do about it. The Debian policy makes sense, and is probably legally necessary in order to allow people to re-distribute Debian. The UW license doesn't make sense to us, but it doesn't look like UW will change it. So, I'm sure the unofficial Debian packages that I'm mirroring are fine and will not get us (me) into trouble. 8^) noah On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > Doesn't the license forbid that? Isn't that why it isn't an official > Debian package (not even non-free) anyway? > > I'll be quiet now. > > On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:31:24PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > > > > I could have sworn that a few weeks back someone posted about > > > a DEB package for just pico (the text editor that comes with pine) > > > that was separate from pine, but I can't find that post in the archives. > > > Am I imagining things? > > > > You remember correctly. I am mirroring the debs at > > http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ > > > > noah > > > > > > > > -- > "I already have all the latest software." > -- Laura Winslow, "Family Matters" > > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. > > Advertising Policy: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/spamoff.htm > GnuPG Public Key: http://DLitzPower.tripod.com/gpgkey.asc > Fingerprint: 0535 F7CF FF5F 8547 E5A5 695E 4456 FB6C BC39 A4B0 > PGP Public Key available at http://www.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html or by `finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOCwua4dCcpBjGWoFAQHknAP/To57Z0rfOdOiGSW4zhS5zt4+DrOy1Giv FpkrRZmRMVQHsVlmDADsBFk0mYVCFMTuDlXf9jCeJHopjtsfYYn/mhD1jtUlqNYD bHBvqFrnH+nnNvHHstz/T2WviF10CATQg0BRlhbnBIjQuDzkfkMWSEnERFWDwxrF hQmS/dYRpdI= =QG8c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
