Re: [Sheflug] EMacs for mail - nearly there!!!

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Huh?
> 
> "Use of Pine/Pico/Pilot: You may compile and execute these programs for 
> any purpose, including commercial, without paying anything to the 
> University of Washington, provided that the legal notices are maintained 
> intact and honored."
> 

You're thinking free of cost - not freedom to modify the code and 
redistribute it, a la BSD and GPL lincenses. You're allowed to create local 
mods, but then they want you to use a particualr way of versioning the 
resultant code.

  "Local modification of this release is permitted as follows, or by
   mutual agreement: In order to reduce confusion and facilitate
   debugging, we request that locally modified versions be denoted by 
   appending the letter "L" to the current version number, and that the
   local changes be enumerated in the integral release notes and
   associated documentation."

The only distribution you can do is by diff patches to the pine code - which 
means that if you need three or four patches, they may not work together :) 
If you submit your patch, it may get included into the next release of pine, 
but no gurantees.

   "The University of Washington encourages unrestricted distribution of
   individual patches to the Pine system. By "patches" we mean
   "difference" files that can be applied to the University of Washington
   Pine source distribution in order to accomplish bug fixes, minor 
   enhancements, or adaptation to new operating systems. Submission of
   these patches to University of Washington for possible inclusion in
   future Pine versions is also encouraged."

As it also makes use of other code as well, then there are restrictions on 
re-distribution of binaries...

   "Redistribution of binary versions is further constrained by license   
   agreements for incorporated libraries from third parties, e.g. LDAP, 
   GSSAPI."

etc etc :)

Chris...

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