Fedora Core 2 wishlists
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Dec 18 00:59:14 UTC 2003
Paul Heinlein writes:
> * I can distribute a binary version of pine if and only if I don't
> alter the official source release at all.
>
> * I can distribute patches alongside the official pine source code,
> but only in source format.
>
> Obviously, Fedora is no place for a package with a restrictive license
> like that. Still, pine is well known and will continue to be widely
> used for some time.
You forgot one more bullet point:
• Pine does not support UTF-8; neither it is likely to support UTF-8 any
time soon.
That, more than anything else, dooms Pine future on Linux.
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