Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:04:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Needed: maintainers for Free Pine (fwd) Message-ID: <199604250604.IAA05957@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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For those of you are not reached by Richard Stallmans arm: --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de ----- Forwarded message from Richard Stallman ----- >From gnu@ai.mit.edu Thu Apr 25 01:32:09 1996 Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:45:23 -0400 Resent-Message-Id: <199604230145.VAA00986@gnu-life.ai.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:59:28 -0400 Message-Id: <gnusenet199604191659.MAA15013@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Sender: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu To: info-gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu Subject: Needed: maintainers for Free Pine Resent-From: info-gnu-request@prep.ai.mit.edu Pine is a simple mail reader that many users like. Until recently, Pine was distributed as free software. However, the University of Washington recently changed to more restrictive distribution terms for Pine. They restrict who is allowed to redistribute, and they don't permit distributing modified versions at all. Under these terms, new versions of Pine are not free software. Previous versions of Pine are still free. But a program needs to be maintained and improved. Therefore we would like to recruit volunteers to work on developing Free Pine, starting with the last available free release. It is undesirable to fork a program; people should try their best to work together before giving up and working separately. Therefore I had a discussion with the Pine developers, urging them to change the terms again to make Pine free software in one way or another. In the end, they rejected the idea categorically. So we're on our own; we now must do the best we can with the situation we are in. The first need is for one or a few people who are willing to take substantial responsibility for the project. If you are ready, willing and able to do this, please send me email. If you would like to help in a lesser capacity, please stand by; when the new maintainers get organized, they will set up channels for people to help in other ways. ----- End of forwarded message from Richard Stallman -----
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