Pine?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Nov 19 01:29:05 UTC 2004


On Friday 19 November 2004 08:13, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> > UW's liscense is gpl incompatable... It was actually removed in fc2...
> > Personally I use pine, but I can understand why it's not in the base
> > distro.
>

yeah. Can't disribute bninaries made from modified code. Therefore, no 
bugfixes except from UW.
.
Debian does (or did) get round it by distributing (patched) source.

One could build it oneself:
apt-get -b source pine

and there's a pine-tracker package to alert users of new versions.


-- 
Cheers
John




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