The problem regarding Pine is that the University of Washington's terms of use are that it not be distributed as a modified binary. Members of the Debian community have specifically asked UofW if they can distribute it as a debian binary package, and UofW said no. Thus, Debian's solution is to distribute it as non-free source with a makefile (their solution is also to tell everyone to use mutt). Pine, by Debian definition, is not entirely free.
J > -----Original Message----- > From: Sach Jobb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 3:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Bits] linux mpeg encoders recommendations > > > pine has problems as well. You have to compile it from source due to > > legal restrictions. > > Uh, that's sort of misleading. It's just that it's under two licences, one > of which, the GPL, is a little stricter than the other. No one is going to > get sued over it. > > sach > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
