Re: Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: Package: ftp.debian.org The current version of pine is in non-free because the copyright is not clear. We really should talk to the maintainers - perhaps we can get permission to distribute the package as part of the distribution? (FYI,

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Dale Scheetz wrote: The copyright is quite clear. You can not distribute this package for a fee without first getting permission from the pine developers. According to our policy this requires it go into non-free. Now I noticed that the copyright has changed, the new one (same in version 3.94

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: The current version of pine is in non-free because the copyright is not clear. The onus rests on the pine maintainer, not me, so I'm reassigning this to pine. Guy

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Buddha Buck
I rarely use pine myself (usually only when I have to read some MIME-encrypted mail :-), but I know it's quite popular. It would be a pity if we can't ship a MIME-aware mailer with the standard distribution. How odd... I seem to have a /usr/bin/exmh, and exmh isn't in my /usr/local/bin. I

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-29 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Package: ftp.debian.org The current version of pine is in non-free because the copyright is not clear. We really should talk to the maintainers - perhaps we can get permission to distribute the package as part of the distribution? (FYI, it's in Red Hat, and those guys are quite careful about