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[Mark Komarinski]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:19:04PM -0500, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
>   The Pine license prohibits distribution of modified binaries.  Red Hat
> patches their Pine.  Technically speaking, Red Hat has been in violation of
> the license for years and years.  Nobody cared much.  (The biggest
> complaints, ironically, came from Debian users, who had to download and
> patch their own Pine, because Debian did the Right Thing and refused to
> distribute a product in violation of its license.)  Red Hat (like most
> companies) tends to overlook technicalities when it suits them.  :-)

SGI distributes pine as well as part of their freeware package.  Not sure
if they change the source or not.

-Mark
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