why not put pine in non-free?

2001-12-15 Thread Alec
Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine... Alec

Re: why not put pine in non-free?

2001-12-15 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Alec wrote: Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine... Because you aren't allowed to ship modified pine binaries. See the thread on debian-devel a few days ago for more information. greets, Stephen R?ger

Re: why not put pine in non-free?

2001-12-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Alec wrote: Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the past threads on this. You cannot ship modified versions of pine binaries. Building pine without modification on Debian will leave it broken

Re: why not put pine in non-free?

2001-12-15 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Alec wrote: Why not put pine in non-free? Other distributions ship with pine... Because Debian has code modifications that seem to help it work with Debian xterms and whatnot better, Pine's licence doesn't allow binary redistribution of this nature. -- Baloo