*** Asheesh Laroia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today:
:) Eduardo, I see that you have an Alpine Maildir patch at
:) http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/info/maildir.html . Do you
:) have any comment as to if it's suitable to include it into the Debian
:) Alpine package?
Dear Assheesh,
Thank you for your message. To be honest, I do not know the answer to
your question, in terms of the following issues.
* I do not have knowledge of anybody testing it in "pure" debian. I know
some people have tried it in things like potato, etc. They even
distribute it. So, I do not know how well it works in Debian, or if it
needs a special tuning.
* I do not know if Debian would force me to distribute my patch under a
specific license. I myself do not care what people do with the patch
as long as they don't claim ownership. I am happy to provide support
for it. I just don't want it to be under an imposed license.
* I am the author of the patch. It is based on old versions of the patch
(e.g. the one Debian distributes, or Suse used to distribute), but it
is completely different now. It has so many ways to configure it. The
one thing it is missing is UID support for IMAP. This is a big
shortcoming, in my opinion, and I am working on it. Having said this,
for local access it is great. The patch that Debian distributes has
UID support, but lacks other features and it is very unstable.
:) It seems that the washington.edu have reasons of correctness against
:) writing their own. Also, do you know if the author of this Maildir
:) patch is willing to allow Debian to redistribute his patch under the
:) Apache License 2.0?
As far as my reading of the license goes, all I ask about license is
compatible and allowed under the Apache 2.0 License; but I do not want my
work to be under such license.
I want to make sure also that you understand that this message represents
my personal opinion and solely my opinion. It is not meant to represent
the opinion of the (Al)Pine team, nor the University of Washington, or the
Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington. I owe in
gratitude to the University of Washington and its people more than I can
repay in any way.
--
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/
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