Re: Re: No Pine?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:00:13AM -0600, 
ramfree26-s8PdfxpoPdHk1uMJSBkQmQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> pine was also removed from mandrake (i think since 9.1) because pine is not 
> under GPL. rpmfind[1] lists some rpm from other distributions. maybe you 
> could grab the src.rpm and try to compile it. 
> 

Let me clarify this: pine isn't in many distros that take FOSS as a
priority !because it is !GPL but rather because it's !free. What
constitutes as "free software" ain't *always* GPL--take for example, the
Mozilla Public License, or XFree86 4.4's revised License (the MPL, in
particular, has been the subject of a very hot discussion in
debian-legal, since recently it has been declared as non-free, with the
result of generating a lot of heated blogposts in planet.debian.net ;)
I'm aware that Fedora's doing Debian's dance, so I guess it comes as
natural that the "Where is Pine" q gets asked *a lot*.

Cheers,
Zakame

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