Re: pine RPM and IPv6 for imapd

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam courier-mta com> said:
> That's the red flag right there.  This clause makes UW-IMAP's license
> incompatible with the GPL.

The GPL is but one of many Open Source licenses.

> The University of Washington reserves the right to acquire any changes
> you've made to their software, and use it for their own purposes and release
> it under other licenses.

How is this different from the BSD license (which is OSI approved),
except for the restriction that UW is the only one allowed to take your
distributed change and use it under another license?  With the BSD
license, _anyone_ can take your distributed change and turn it into
closed-source software.

> This has more in common with Microsoft's Shared Source license, rather than
> any OSI-approved license.

See above.  It has much more in common with the BSD license, except that
only UW can use your change under a different license (Microsoft can and
has used code under the BSD license in their closed-source software).

I do not see anything in the UW IMAP license that would exclude it from
Fedora.  The UW IMAP license is _different_ from the Pine license that
was mentioned earlier that is not compatible with the Fedora Project.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.