Reply is to gossip due to topic being of general interest. > I was trying to download the latest version of the mail-me GPL tarball > from the /contrib directory but I found nothing there. Was the source > code removed intentionally, or is it a glitch?
Wow. I had no idea anyone had even looked at the software after all these years. I hope you put it to good use. The tarball in question contains the sort engine, a bunch of glue code and all The Mail Archive's branding material (i.e. the home page, the FAQ, logo, stylesheet, etc.) It came down accidentally some time during the past two years when we were moving things around and nobody seemed to notice. Then an ugly plagiarism incident [1] put a sour taste in both Jeff Marshall's and my mouth. We are now particularly wary of putting branding information in a GPL tarball lest something like that happens again. Maybe with the right packaging the code could be made into an appropriate "add-water-get-archival-service" but that would take a whole lot of elbow grease. In the mean time we've been pointing any inquiries along those lines to mharc. [2] Jeff and I need to talk this over and decide what we want to do. Comments from the peanut gallery are - as always - appreciated. Cheers, Jeff [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/gossip@jab.org/msg01006.html [2] http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/doc/ _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
