[imp] What is JAWmail? How ot related to IMP?

[Rudi Benkoviè]

On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, 5:05:18 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Rudi Benkoviè <rudib@email.si>:

>> Some guys might say why don't I instead patch Horde and IMP to do some
>> things the way I want it to? Well, I already hacked a lot of IMP 2.2
>> and I didn't like that - I wanted plugins for custom things back then
>> in ... '98, I think (like user registration, showing mail quota, FAQs,
>> banners,...) and I had to port our hacks from IMP 2.2.something to
>> 2.2.something+more ... Really didn't like the process.

> I have nothing against you working from our codebase, but I'm sad you 
> didn't feel like contributing more to the community; I think you'll find=
 
> that a lot of the people who make their patches - "hacks" - for IMP publi=
c 
> find acceptance for them and get them mainlined, thus eliminating the who=
le 
> porting thing...

Again: I'm not working from the Horde codebase.

>> Hint, hint: Just as I borrowed MIME and Registry ideas, you guys
>> should borrow plugin ideas ... ;) Code's there, quite OO ...

> While people are picking nits, the MIME code and the Registry are all und=
er 
> the LGPL, not the GPL. So if you are distributing derived work under the=
 
> GPL, you're technically removing rights that people should have to that 
> code and violating the license.

Ok, I'll license the MIME IMAP parser (one file) under LGPL, as it
should be. Registry was only taken as an _idea_, not code; that is
design of what it should do. Same goes for the whole look of the
package: it only _looks_ similiar, the code was written by me. Is it
really that hard to understand? ;)

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Rudi