As a student and an employee at the UW, it seems to me very unlikely that
Pine will even be actively developed in the near future, considering the
generally antagonistic attitude of the administrators (PHB's, so to speak)
towards anything non-Microsoft, and more and more of the students,
faculty, a
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 05:01:12PM -0700, Terry Gray wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
> > 2. The above requirement places Pine in non-free, rather than main,
> > which means Pine could not be put onto Debian CD's. The only fix for
> > this is a licensing change; for Pine to modify th
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote:
> The possibility of UW releasing a version of Pine specifically for Debian
> Linux is not out of the question,
I think a possible solution for this "problem" is that UW itself
distributes pine in .deb format.
Would you willing to do this?
> but it is also
Thanks Bruce; I appreciate your note.
-teg
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
> Terry,
>
> Sorry if I misrepresented your position,
> "broke off" does carry too much connotative baggage.
>
>
> - Bruce
>
>
Terry,
Sorry if I misrepresented your position,
"broke off" does carry too much connotative baggage.
- Bruce
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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote:
> Bruce,
> I would have been much happier with phrasing such as "has not yet
> responded" rather than the much more pejorative "broke off
> com
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote:
[snip]
> One difference between sharing patch files vs. redistributing the
> resulting binaries is that the ultimate user or site administrator will
> tend to be more conscious of what is "standard Pine" vs. "modified Pine"
> if they go through the process of
Bruce,
I would have been much happier with phrasing such as "has not yet
responded" rather than the much more pejorative "broke off
communications"... Sigh. Whatever.
Brock, we actually had been having discussions on this topic, and were
working on a reply to you. I apologize for the delay in r
There are three issues with pine
(in order of importance to Debian, imo):
1. Pine does not allow redistribution of modified binaries without
explicit permission to do so. There are three fixes: Pine provides
executables that do not require tweaking by Debian, then takes on the
job of a Debian ma
** NOTE: The Pine developers wanted to give me a new message to quote/post
publicly -- after waiting for a month for this message, and having
requested it numerous times, I've decided to go through anyhow **
Hi,
I've been in touch with the Pine developers at U Washington (U Dub)
recently, and it
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