Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Sam Varshavchik]

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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