Geoffrey Lee wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:40:44PM +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote:
>
>>On Thursday 27 June 2002 13.19, civileme wrote:
>>
>>>Oden Eriksson wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi.
>>>>
>>>>pine is gone from the repository, why?
>>>>
>>>longer open source by any stretch of the imagination.
>>>
>>Hmmm..., very annoying... But what about the imap-2000 junk as it's the same 
>>authors AFAIK
>>
http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/legal.html

covers PINE. It seems we were misinterpreting their intent earlier so
they changed the wording, but pine always did have a licensing problem
in terme of free software, now it is not even classifiable as
open-source. Of course, aficianados can always DL it from UW.

http://www.washington.edu/imap/legal.html
is not GPL but the UW Free-Fork license which does allow
modification/redistribution and requires source to be
available--apparently a free software license.

Civileme

>
>
>glee@tolstoy ~ $ rpm -qi imap
>Name        : imap                         Relocations: (not relocateable)
>Version     : 2000c                             Vendor: MandrakeSoft
>Release     : 7.1mdk                        Build Date: Tue May 28 00:13:31 2002
>Install date: Thu May 30 01:57:26 2002      Build Host: updates.mandrakesoft.com
>Group       : System/Servers                Source RPM: imap-2000c-7.1mdk.src.rpm
>Size        : 4277484                          License: BSD
>
>
>[...]
>
>
>That's fairly unrestrictive.
>
>It's unfortunate that pine has got such a license (if you like free software 
>anyway :-) ... find a replacement if it really bothers you that it's not
>in the distrib. 
>
>
>       -- Geoff.
>
>




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