On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote:
>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:03:09 -0400
>From: Matt Fahrner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: Lori Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Subject: [Fwd: Re: Pine GPL and "forks"]
>
>FYI - This was the Pine group's response to the question of how they're
>maintaining their source code. It was nice of them to respond, though
>I'm not sure if it really addresses the overall questions.
So in other words, after reading it all... PINE is _NOT_ open
source software. It is software to which the source code is
viewable.
Sad, very sad.. I'm going to download every previous PINE
version that I can get my hands on, in hopes that one of the
previous versions had a more liberal open source compatible
license. Something akin to what the wonderful people behind the
OpenSSH project did.
Keep fingers crossed people! OpenPINE??? Just a thought... ;o)
Let me make it also clear though that I love the PINE mailer, and
can't see myself using anything else, however I'd like to see it
more open WRT the code. If it were GPL, the UW folk would still
be the "authority" on it, but it would be easier to get bug fixes
done. Debugging is parallelizeable, but strict licenses scare
people away. I _wont_ be redistributing modified works as that
would be pointless, however if a copy is found with a less
restrictive license, then...
I mean geez, Mozilla, and Staroffice are now GPL... come on
people, wake up! ;o)
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