VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:49:07 +0100
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 06:21 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> > No, Alpine is specifically a "free" version of Pine.
> 
> Not really a "version of pine", according to Wikipedia it seems to be a
> new set of tools, albeit from the same source (UoW):

Ah, OK - interesting...
> 
> "In 2006, the University of Washington announced that it stopped
> development of Pine with Pine 4.64, although Pine continues to be
> supported.[6]
> 
> In its place is a new family of email tools based upon Pine, called
> Alpine and licensed under the Apache License, version 2."
> 
> > So this does not apply to "alpine".
> > 
> > See  /usr/share/doc/alpine/copyright - it's an Apache license, apparently.
> 
> That's what I meant (and I thought also wrote). Alpine is in the repos I
> listed, but Pine is not due to its license. 

Right - about 5 seconds after sending, I realised that you actually meant
that - ( this happens to me when I haven't had my morning coffee!)  sorry
for the misunderstanding :)
> 
> The OP had complained that "not even pine" is in the repos, but the
> reasons are different: Alpine is just not in Dapper, probably just
> because it is too new for that, while Pine cannot reasonably be in any
> distro.

Agreed.

Peter

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