When I started using Debian, I was also a little startled at not having pico.
Then I learned about joe (which provides a pico emulation via the command 'jpico'), and all was happy in the universe. It would be nice if joe could be a main editor. -----Original Message----- From: David Starner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 7:55 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Editor and sensible-editor At 07:48 AM 6/14/99 -0500, Adam Rogoyski wrote: >On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > >> Not even. pico CANNOT be packaged for Debian! The best that can be done >> is offer the source and let you build it yourself. >> >> To be blunt: Tough. Convince UW to make pico free software and get it >> into main, then convince people that it needs to be installed as part of >> the base system. Then we can talk about adding it as a panic option. > > The copyright for Pine and Pico has been updated on June 2nd and seems >less restrictive, http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/legal.html. >Does it still fail the Debian Free Software guidelines? Definetly. "Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, " where as follows is not pretty much anything is not DFSG. It's not clear to me whether Debian can distribute modified binaries, though, which is one of the big questions. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alternately [EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I would weep, but my tears have been stolen; I would shout, but my voice has been taken. Thus, I write." - Tragic Poet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
