On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 16:28 -0400, Beartooth wrote: > http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ announces : > > > In late 2005, Computing & Communications at the University of Washington > > began a project to create a new family of email tools built upon the > > Pine® Message System. This family of tools is called Alpine. Alpine > > consists of a UNIX command-line program, a PC version, and a Web version. > > > Alpine will be licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. > > > The target date for the release of Alpine is October 1, 2006. > > IANAL, nor a programmer, and can't tell whether things that sound very > similar to me are functionally equivalent; hence the following Very Dumb > Question, even having followed the link from the above to > > http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 > > and tried to read the prose there -- i.e., and to wit : Does this news > mean that Fedora will be able to start including Alpine, as RedHat used to > include Pine? Given that Apache httpd 2.2 as distributed in FC5 is licensed under exactly that license, I don't see any reason why Alpine shouldn't show up in Extras, should someone offer to maintain it. Paul.
