On Thursday 27 June 2002 21.28, civileme wrote: > 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
Thanks, but I'm not that good in english nor a lawyer. I take your words for it. > >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. I tried mutt at one time but hated it after 20 seconds... I have allready fixed a pine with included qmail maildir support (which never worked in Mandrake...) Those that can't live without pine (and qmail) gotta visit http://d-srv.com/dsrv/ Maybe vdanen can put it on his site?... (Beware of network trouble because of Telia and one of their god damn routers that have annoyed me for a month now...) Chears. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com
