Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> Holger Wansing wrote:
>> <p>Some packages are only distributed as source code due to the
>> restrictions
>> in their licenses. Notably, one such package is <tt>pine</tt>, see
>> <ref id="pine"> for more information.
>>
>> So if we remove pine from the doc, we need another example for such
>> nonfree software, which is only allowed to be distributed as source code.
>> Is anyone aware of such software?
>
> publicfile. There is https://packages.debian.org/publicfile-installer .
Except that publicfile isn't an example "only distributed as source
code". Debian doesn't distribute even that much - instead the
installer package *fetches* that code from upstream.
> Probably there are more examples.
Do things like nvidia-kernel-dkms count?
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
