Subject: trust-based mail client project based on pine

From: "Wei Wang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:54:23 +0000

Hi, all,

I am currently doing a final year project writing a trust-based email filter 
and I picked pine as the platform mail client. Now what I want to do is just 
put in a mail filter layer into pine. Could anyone give me some advice on 
whether pine is good for this purpose? How does pine support such 
extension/development? Does it have an API? What is the extension mechanism 
that pine provides?

Also I heard pine is no longer GPL?

Many thanks,

Wei

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From: "Mike A. Harris" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:03:24 -0500 (EST)

>extension/development? Does it have an API? What is the extension mechanism 

Pine already has a mail filter, and has for quite some time now.

>Also I heard pine is no longer GPL?

Pine was _never_ GPL.  Pine's license is not open source 
compatible.  The source is available, and you can modify it, but 
it is not GPL compatible and you can not mix it with GPL source 
code.

Be sure to read the pine license very closely before venturing on 
any project to modify it.

HTH

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From: Alexandre Dulaunoy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:21:22 +0100 (CET)

> any project to modify it.

  Yes, is there a historical  reason regarding the licensing of pine ?

  We should  try to  promote the University  of Washington  to release
  pine  under  a  license  compatible  with  the  GNU  General  Public
  License. 

  adulau

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From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:58:42 -0800 (PST)

>  pine  under  a  license  compatible  with  the  GNU  General  Public

Umm, they have every right to release it under whatever license they want!

It wouldn't surprise me if the 'viral' nature of the GPL is the reason they
didn't.. and/or they wanted the ability to sell it or components of it.