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Re: [ProgSoc] PINE Being Free?



At 3:35pm on the 19th of April, Anand Kumria wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:31:46AM +1000, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
> > At 10:12pm on the 17th of April, Anand Kumria wrote:
> >
> > > Using the same liblockfile library to ensure NFS works okay. Having a version
> > > of pine in /usr/bin/ is a violation of the licence!
> >
> > There is nothing in the Pine license that prevents installation in /usr/bin.
>
> You can not distribute a version of Pine that is installed in /usr/bin.

This is kind of nonsensical so I am assuming you mean "you can not
distribute a version of Pine that assumes its helper programs are installed
in /usr/bin", in which case yes, that's right. You would need to compile
your own copy onsite.

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