On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > Isn't that why there is a non-free? Some apps require 'special > permissions?' And because some people want them?
non-free is for non dfsg-compliant software which, however, may be distributed by FTP. pine is in non-free because license does not allow commercial use of the pine trademark. If this were all, pine would be like many other non-free packages. But this is not all, the UW does not want "modified binaries" to be distributed, and as a result of this, no binary .deb packages may be distributed by FTP. -- "70f1725c30938f76fda09ad3da1e80c0" (a truly random sig)
