Re: No Pine?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:26:02PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Manny wrote: ..
> > Anyone know where I can get a version of Pine that works with FC2? I
> > think all the Pine lovers out there could use it if they ever
> > decided to go to FC2.
> 
> PINE is not free as in freedom. Hence it's no longer distributed. You
> can always build from source or find a third-party RPM.
> 
> Even PICO is not there anymore (being part of the PINE distribution)
> and has been replaced with GNU nano.
> 

True. In fact, the PINE binary isn't even in the Debian archive, since
it does not even qualify for the Debian Free Software Guidelines, not
being GPL, but rather released under a restrictive license that prevents
binary redistribution. There should be, however, a lot of source rpms
for PINE, just as it's available in source form at the Debian archive...
That shouldn't be a problem at all, since we have freshrpms.net and
rpmfind.net...

Cheers,
Zakame
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