Pine whence??

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 23:33 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > I guess I could submit the imap-* and pine packages to ydl-extras, if
> > I could remember how to do that and they would be accepted (there may
> > be a licensing issue with pine).
> 
> Provided you haven't modified the code you are free to distribute it.
> It's only when you modify the code that you have to get their OK to
> redistribute (they like to keep a close eye on QA issues and the
> like).

 Yeah, which is a really brain dead license. This means that if any
distro wants to provide Pine, they have to wait for U-Washington to
patch any security problems before they can distribute them, unless they
only send patches and get the client to patch themselves (unlikely).
This really sucks, because Pine is my favorite email client. What I've
been doing to get my Pine fix is fetching src.rpms from Dag Wieers and
rebuilding. So far, no problems (except that I can't just yum update or
apt-get upgrade Pine). 

 Someone should start a petition asking u-washington to get with the
program. :-)

Cheers,

Chris