VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Tue Jan 8 19:21:33 UTC 2008


On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:47:54 +0100
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:


> Alpine is in Edgy-backports, Feisty, and Gutsy:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=alpine&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
> 
> The Pine license makes it impractical to distribute:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_(e-mail_client)#Licensing_and_clones

No, Alpine is specifically a "free" version of Pine.
So this does not apply to "alpine".

See  /usr/share/doc/alpine/copyright - it's an Apache license, apparently.


Peter
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