Re: Debian folly?

[Pankaj Kaushal <apenguinhead@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:57:44PM +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:32:11PM +0800, Sanjeev Gupta merrily said:
>> Only one?  Drat, we have to make it more cryptic ;-)
Nice

>
>Heh, heh. I said I was curious about one thing. I am actually stumped by the rest of them.
>
>> The Pine licence does not allow Distribution of a modified Source or Binary.
>> To integrate into Debian, we have to patch a few things, like location of
>> mail spool (/var/spool/mail , not /var/mail), etc.  There is also the issue
>How does the RH dist coping with this then?

Its not it include cygnus<-- or whatever that shit is
And totally closed source Real Player Remember.
RH is no different from any closed source expensive s/w sellin ppl
>> 
>> This is slightly different from the Debian-kde1 controversy.  In general,
>
>which is???
QT was not GPL orThe QT Licence is not respected by GNU.

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>> 
>> BTW, there is a DFSG-compliant pico clone, called nano.  Available in
>> Debian.
>
>Actually, I wasn't asking how to use Pine. I use mutt. What I was
>wondering is if  debian is so finicky about licences, why does it
>include a completely binary Netscape ?
No it does not include 
What it does is netscape 3 which is a more relaxed liscence I belive.
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