I found out what I wanted to know... Basically, the Pine license does not allow you to distribute modified binaries. Debian cannot distribute an original Pine binary because it violates the FSH (the config files are in /usr/lib!!!!). So instead, Debian just provides the unmodified source with the diff so you can compile it yourself.
I checked a RH5.2 installation... sure enough, the pine config files were in /usr/lib. Looks like they don't really care about where Pine puts its stuff, they just want to have it in their distribution. aphro wrote: > > i think it has something to do with them not allowing modified binaries to > be released, plain binaries are fine i believe, most other distros have > them..i remember slackware had it. not sure what all patches debian > developers add to pine .. > > nate > > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ > Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ > Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ > Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ > -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > 11:52am up 75 days, 23:19, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.28, 0.28 > > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > Can anyone tell me, in 500 words or less, what it is about the Pine > > license that Debian includes it only as source and in non-free? > > > > Matthew > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
