[pmmail-list] Linux

[Rod... Whitworth]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 19:50:43 -0700 (MST), John Drabik wrote:

>>>but basically if they want to try to generate revenue by
>>>adding "proprietary" code to a GPL work, I don't see any way...
>>But then there is always BSD type licensing....
>
>Hmmm.  Isn't that the license Microsoft gorked (technical term), to
>screw the Kerberos standard?

I believe they just read the documentation and found a byte with no
claim staked on it.

>
>The code the e-mail client is based on is, apparently, GPL, and you
>can't just decide you want a new license type; you have to live with
>the one the author decides.

Well they don't have to choose a GPLed client. 

For that matter I'd rather they did the port. The really picky protocol
stuff is already done and that leaves 2 issues: The filesystem and the
gui.

But I'd live for a while with windows code compiled to whatever that
win-API thing for Linux is.

Best,




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