-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Parrish M Myers wrote:
> Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only > the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that > restrictive? The pine license doesn't allow distribution of *modified* binaries. Unfortunately, in order to get pine to fit in with the Debian filesystem guidelines, some changes must be made to it. That's why it's fine for us to distribute the patched sources. The Pine license does offer a bit of help that potentially could address these problems. They request that an 'L' be appended to the version number if a modified binary is to be distributed. They also apparently are willing to make special license agreements, but that goes against Debian's policy. I'm not quite sure why we don't choose to append the 'L' character to the version number in order to include Pine in main. I'm sure it has been debated somewhere, though. There is an unofficial Pine binary mirror that I maintain (Jaldhar H. Vyas maintains the actual packages) that properly appends the 'L' to the version number of the modified binaries. You can get these packages at http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine/ noah _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOdtP74dCcpBjGWoFAQGMXgP/YBbkfTW/8B4Gf+jLwVjsa1f/+ThzKZ5Y vbluiDTUzjeMnNrFCUhuTusY49yJqeXnWCHlqRJmwv++zyOLN4bSGXzLQfRP4OYX R58McLfPCZ+cp7CAjR/qUDwIvT5xZw8j56rQiJ4pwF0CWFdqryNGXN/SMgskWQh3 1gnkthf2gSo= =Z+6b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----