Re: License problems with Pine MUA?

["Drews, Jonathan*" <DrewsJ@cder.fda.gov>]

I just checked the SuSE ftp public site and both Pine 4.5.8 and Pico are
available. I don't doubt that it's not open source. I just wonder why it
merits  exclusion on some distros. I mean some distros also ship RealPlayer,
APFL Ghostscript, Scilab, Gnuplot, Java, Acrobat reader and in some cases
Macromedia Flash. None of those are open source. I looked at the Pine
license before I wrote to the list and it seemed OK. So why are they so
upset over Pine? 

 I don't dispute your word Steven. I just get the suspicion that their was a
quarrel with the Pine developers in the past and now it's being excluded
because of that quarrel. Sort of like the problems with Qt a few years back
(I realize Qt may be a special case). At any rate, I guess my big concern is
will Pine be maintained for the next few years or is it in danger of being
phased out because it is excluded by certain distros?

 Thanks Steve for the suggestions on the Postfix relay. I will try it out
when I get home.


					Kind regards
					Jonathan



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