Xmms and RH8

Craig White plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
18 Oct 2002 08:14:12 -0700


On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 23:33, der.hans wrote:
> Am 17. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Craig White so:
> 
> > Indeed - I was imprecise. Their standard distributions don't include
> > anything without the source. I have bought their 'professional' package
> > which contains proprietary stuff such as Acrobat Reader, JSK, Loki Games
> > etc. I started with 5.2 (I believe that 6.0 was actually shipping then
> > but 5.2 came with the book I bought) and so you are much more equipped
> > to give us history.
> 
> That makes more sense as well. The downloadable dist should be only Free
> Software. Also, I just recalled that whire many of these apps are no cost,
> that doesn't mean you're allowed to redistribute them. Take the m$ core true
> type fonts as an example. Take pine and qmail binaries as more examples.
> 
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actually, pine is included with the distro, source & binary

Craig