Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Then why do we have DSFG #8 `License Must Not Be Specific to Debian' > if there is no Debian? There *is* a Debian. But it's not a legal *person*, it's a *work*. It is possible to write up a license that says, for example, that copies of program X

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Raul Miller
> > There's no legal difference between "Debian" and "people who recieve > > it from us". [Legally, there's no such entity as "Debian".] > > > > Nor is there a difference from the viewpoint of our social contract. On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:35:49AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Then why do we

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Raul Miller wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified > > version, but that people who recieve it from us do not, unless they > > too ask permission ("We do expect and appreciate..."). Non-free

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-05 Thread Richard Stallman
> I don't either--but that is not the point. The point is that the U of > W has actually threatened to sue the FSF for distributing a modified > version of a program that was released under the same words. Personally, I'm still in the process of confirming this. I hope that the U

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-03 Thread Raul Miller
> > Their position was that the words "permission to copy, distribute and > > modify" do not grant permission to distribute a modified version. In > > other words, they say you can distribute the software, and you can > > modify the software, but you can't modify it and then distri

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
> Their position was that the words "permission to copy, distribute and > modify" do not grant permission to distribute a modified version. In > other words, they say you can distribute the software, and you can > modify the software, but you can't modify it and then distribute the

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
Then it must also be true that one cannot copy and then distribute, or distribute and then copy. Have you attempted to challenge them on this point? Do they have English professors at UWash, or just semioticians? I never thought of this argument. It could be a good point to raise in

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-02 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified > version, but that people who recieve it from us do not, unless they > too ask permission ("We do expect and appreciate..."). Non-free. If > she had written just "

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:47:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > First of all, by this message you have our permission to distribute a > > > modified version of IMAPD. > > That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribut

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > First of all, by this message you have our permission to distribute a > > modified version of IMAPD. > > That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified > version, but that people who recieve it from us do not

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Sep-00, 02:50 (CDT), Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, we did get an answer - from Lori (Lori's last name escapes my > memory, but it was the person who sent the message you forwarded) - saying > that what we are doing with imapd is not against its license and if it > t

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:57:50AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a > > related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being > > violated, when modified versions are distributed. > > On Thu, Aug 31, 200

Re: Free Pine? Fsck Pine!

2000-09-01 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:39:05PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > I don't see why Debian (or GNU, or "Linux") bothers with the IMAPD of > UofW so much at all. Aren't there quite some replacements by now? [1] The copyright appears to meet our standards (DFSG). [2] The only alternative imap daemon doe

Re: Free Pine? Fsck Pine!

2000-09-01 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Sven Guckes wrote: > > I don't see why Debian (or GNU, or "Linux") > bothers with the IMAPD of UofW so much at all. > Aren't there quite some replacements by now? > Nope. Not that are free software and/or full-featured. Yet we're up to our armpits in crappy POP3 servers wit

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Raul Miller
> I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a > related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being > violated, when modified versions are distributed. On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:46:40PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote: > Their position was tha

Re: Free Pine? Fsck Pine!

2000-09-01 Thread Sven Guckes
* Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000831 20:47]: > If Debian decides to reject IMAPD and tells the U of W so, > that will put some pressure on them to clarify the license. > Otherwise they may prefer to leave it > unclear in order to to "have it both ways". I don't see why Debian (or GNU, or

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:46:40PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote: > Their position was that the words "permission to copy, distribute and > modify" do not grant permission to distribute a modified version. In > other words, they say you can distribute the software, and you can > modify the softwar

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Joseph Carter
Richard, I am comfortable speaking for the group at large when I say we appreciate your advice and input on this matter. I myself appreciate the ends you're trying to accomplish here. Nevertheless, the methods you're using to go about this cause me to question whether or not your means justify y

Re: Free Pine?

2000-08-31 Thread Richard Stallman
I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being violated, when modified versions are distributed. Their position was that the words "permission to copy, distribute and modify" do not grant permi

Re: MANA - Free Pine? yet another dead mailer/newsreader?

2000-08-31 Thread Santiago Vila
For your amusement: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~sanvila/mana If upstream maintainers tell me this is alive, I'll upload it (for project/experimental first). Thanks.

Re: MANA - Free Pine? yet another dead mailer/newsreader?

2000-08-30 Thread Sven Guckes
* Jimmy O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000829 22:40]: > ) But are there any features that > ) mutt and slrn do not offer yet? > How about "it's pine" ;) No further questions. ;-) > Problem is though, the discussion about the IMAPD license > started with rms mentioning that the FSF had tried to > r

Re: Free Pine?

2000-08-30 Thread Martin Jenssen
* Chris Allegretta | I found a copy at ftp://ftp.kvaleberg.com/pub/mana-4.0beta.tar.gz, I | guess it's a mirror. A whole lot of warnings when trying to compile it, | but it looks interesting. Actually, I think it's the official site. The official homepage for Mana is: http://www.kvaleb

Re: Free Pine?

2000-08-30 Thread Chris Allegretta
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:03:44PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:56:28PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > > http://home.sol.no/~egilk/mana.html > > I was curious to see it, but I can't download. Ftp server does not allow > anonymous connection... I found a copy

Re: Free Pine?

2000-08-30 Thread Christian Surchi
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:56:28PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > http://home.sol.no/~egilk/mana.html I was curious to see it, but I can't download. Ftp server does not allow anonymous connection... -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Buddha Buck
> I rarely use pine myself (usually only when I have to read some > MIME-encrypted mail :-), but I know it's quite popular. It would > be a pity if we can't ship a MIME-aware mailer with the standard > distribution. How odd... I seem to have a /usr/bin/exmh, and exmh isn't in my /usr/local/bin.

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: > The current version of pine is in non-free because the copyright > is not clear. The onus rests on the pine maintainer, not me, so I'm reassigning this to pine. Guy

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Dale Scheetz wrote: > The copyright is quite clear. You can not distribute this package for a > fee without first getting permission from the pine developers. According > to our policy this requires it go into non-free. Now I noticed that the copyright has changed, the new one (same in version 3.9

Re: Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > > The current version of pine is in non-free because the copyright > is not clear. We really should talk to the maintainers - perhaps > we can get permission to distribute the package as part of the > distribution? (FYI

Bug#4339: no free pine package available

1996-08-29 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Package: ftp.debian.org The current version of pine is in non-free because the copyright is not clear. We really should talk to the maintainers - perhaps we can get permission to distribute the package as part of the distribution? (FYI, it's in Red Hat, and those guys are quite careful about cop