I found out what I wanted to know...
Basically, the Pine license does not allow you to distribute modified
binaries. Debian cannot distribute an original Pine binary because it
violates the FSH (the config files are in /usr/lib). So instead,
Debian just provides the unmodified source with the
i think it has something to do with them not allowing modified binaries to
be released, plain binaries are fine i believe, most other distros have
them..i remember slackware had it. not sure what all patches debian
developers add to pine ..
nate
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Ignore this request... I just searched the Debian archives...
Matthew Dalton wrote:
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> Hi there,
>
> Can anyone tell me, in 500 words or less, what it is about the Pine
> license that Debian includes it only as source and in non-free?
>
> Matthew
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Hi there,
Can anyone tell me, in 500 words or less, what it is about the Pine
license that Debian includes it only as source and in non-free?
Matthew
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