On Saturday 09 November 2002 10:05, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > I did and I did not, and still do not, understand why, say, RedHat can > distribute pine in binary form and Debian cannot. Or anyone making prebuilt > debs available, for that matter. >
RedHat read the license and made the choice to distribute it. Debian made the choice not to. We do ship pine-source which lets whoever wants to build a version for themself. Remember, just because other people do it does not make it right or legal. RH can also afford to be sued.
