On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
* 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 would be more convenient for us if you wrote, "Asheesh, you are allowed
to use and redistribute this patch under the same terms as Alpine."
Given both (a) you are the author of the patch, and (b) you wrote above
that you don't care what people do with it so long as they don't claim
they wrote the patch, I think we might be okay to distribute your patch.
If you won't be explicit about letting us use it with the same terms as
Alpine itself (the Apache 2.0 License), then I can try to get advice on
this from more experienced/legal-minded people in Debian.
No matter what, if we include your patch, we'll always mention the
original author of the patch (you!) in debian/copyright, and we'll
probably also mention you in README.Debian.
I would really prefer it if you just wrote the sentence above beginning
with "Asheesh, you are allowed...". It's no harm to you and it makes my
end of the process easier.
And by the way, thanks for all the work you've done for the PINE community
in the past!
-- Asheesh.
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each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall
was a gate.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King"
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to system overview.]
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