On 2004-06-23, Goedson Paixao penned:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:40:54 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama 
>> Now I'm confused.  A search through packages.debian.org turns up
>> gpg4pine and pine-docs, not to mention something called pine-tracker
>> that appears to be a way to check your installed version of pine
>> against the official version ... but no pine.
>
> You can only find pine in source form because it's licencing terms
> disallow distribution of binaries obtained from modified source IIRC.
> You must apt-get source pine and build the packages yourself.

See, I knew there was a license issue!

Hrm.  So either the prepackaged pine to which the OP referred is a
licensing violation, or debian feels strongly enough about some mods to
distribute as source rather than distribute the canonical form?

Well, whatever.  I use mutt, so it's academic to me.

-- 
monique


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