On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:28:36AM -0700, 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? > > I'm a Debian newbee and wondered the same thing. I just > installed the sources and built my own copy. Pretty easy > and it only took about 10 minutes to compile on my system.
The Pine license requires that Debian get permission to redistribute a modified binary, Debian feels that condition makes it non-free. later, Bruce