package: pine severity: minor version: 4.64-1 Hello!
Some weeks ago, I sent a request to the pine upstream authors for the permission to release pine as a binary package for <http://www.debian-unofficial.org>. My idea was to use the modifications for the pine source code that you introduced with the current Debian package (4.64-1), so that I would only have to change some files in the debian subdir (new changelog entry, no pine-tracker package, etc). Well, upstream grants me the permission, but wants two minor issues to be fixed in the source code (please see below) before. As I mentioned before, I do not want to do any changes to the source code outside the debian directory. Now I would like to ask you if you could fix these two small issues in the Debian package and release a new revision, so that I could use this for the binary package for d-u.o! Of course I will inform the upstream author about my plans. Thank you very much! Cheers, Fabian -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Von: Hugh Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Greffrath Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: Re: Pine license change (debian-unofficial.org) > Datum: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:59:34 -0700 (PDT) > > Fabian, we have a license for you. > > In reviewing your changes, our engineer had the following comments: > > > > I question the following changes: > > > > In pine-4.64/imap/src/osdep/unix/env_unix.h MANDATORYLOCKPROT is set to > > 0600 from the correct 0666. This is discussed in: > > http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#5.5 > > > > Shared mailbox files (e.g., helpdesk) depend upon the locks being 0666 > > instead of 0600. > > > > In pine-4.64/imap/src/osdep/unix/os_slx.h > > #include <time.h> > > is added. time.h is already included three lines higher up in the > > source code. Why is this second included needed? > > > > I want to call your attention to line item 2.4 in the license. You will > need to add an "N" to the version number of a modified Pine you > distribute. > > Thanks for your patience and don't hesitate to contact us with any > questions. > > Hugh Sheets > Manager, Messaging Solutions > Technology Engineering Group Distributed Systems > University of Washington > > > ------------------------------------- > The University of Washington > Pine MESSAGING SOFTWARE Distribution License > (...) 120 kB of license and legal notice, including complete Debian .diff file > End of Pine License and Legal Notices > > > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Greffrath Fabian wrote: > > > Hello Hugh! > > > > I did not contact you for quite some time now, hope you still remember > > me and what we already talked about... > > > > I would like to ask you about the progress of the pine license change. > > You told me that there might be some success in the early new year (this > > was in 2005) and now half of 2006 is over without any visible changes. > > > > I would like to offer you some kind of compromise: > > Maybe you know that there is already a pine source package with a > > separate diff-file in Debian, which users may download and compile on > > their own computer. Although the modifications which are implemented by > > the diff-file are quite minor, there are no binary packages for pine in > > Debian, because the (let's call it 'old') license forbids to > > redistribute modified versions. So far, so good. > > > > Please allow me to distribute this modified version of Pine as a binary > > package. I am talking about the same package that Debian users will get > > when downloading and compiling pine on their own. Of course I will make > > clear in the documentation that this version of pine is not original and > > that they should report bugs to us, not you (Maybe you have some > > paraphrases prepared for situations like this. English is not my native > > language). > > > > To make clear what changes to the pine source code we are talking about, > > please have a look at the following diff-file: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/p/pine/pine_4.64-1.diff.gz > > > > (This affects the version of pine currently in Debian. In the oldstable > > distribution of Debian there is still version 4.44 of pine.) > > > > Thank you very much! > > > > Nice Gretings, > > Fabian > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
