"Dan Harkless" wrote:
> I don't know if there are any other commercial UNIXen that still bundle MH.
> I know Ultrix did -- not sure if Digital UNIX continued (and continues??) in
> that tradition.
I'd guess not. Ultrix didn't present MH to the user - it was hidden
behind a mail program called DXmail, which was part of the DECwindows
user interface. I don't think OSF1 and then DU carried that over;
doesn't it use CDE or something similar?
> Of course there'd be no problem with Linux, and, I guess, the *BSDs bundling
> a GPL'd nmh.
With my NetBSD hat on (and not as an official position :-), I don't
think NetBSD has plans to bundle nmh into the base system. nmh is
supported through a package system, based on the FreeBSD ports system.
It's GPL status shouldn't matter either way.
> I dunno, personally I don't see a super-convincing reason to not GPL nmh,
> but I could certainly be swayed. It would be kind of neat for nmh to be the
> official GNU project mail client (I don't believe the project currently
> includes a standalone mail client??).
>
> If not the GPL, what other open source license would be most appropriate? X
> License? Apache License? BSD License? Artistic License? Others...?
BSD is reasonably common, and fairly free with the adversting clause
(the old "Clause 3") removed.
Simon.
