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Re: [Classpathx-discuss] javamail supplemental licence terms
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nferrier |
Subject: |
Re: [Classpathx-discuss] javamail supplemental licence terms |
Date: |
31 Jul 2002 10:11:20 +0100 |
dog <address@hidden> writes:
> it has been brought to my attention that there is a clause in sun's javamail
> 1.3 supplemental licence terms which is more than a little anticompetitive.
>
> in section 2(iii) of the agreement it states that:
>
> "you do not distribute additional software intended to replace any
> component(s) of the Software"
>
> this means that, for instance, it is not possible to use sun's javamail
> distribution and the gnu pop3 or smtp provider, or vice versa.
>
> i am happy to create single jars of each gnu javamail provider such that
> conflicts do not occur (there is no sun mbox or nntp provider to replace) if
> people want to use these providers between now and the time the gnu imap
> provider is finished and we have a complete javamail distro. please contact
> me if you have this requirement.
Status update:
- I have been working on the autoconf/automakejar stuff to do a clever
build for different providers, something like the way apache works
with enable-module.
- I have done a little more work on imap. I now have a very good Pair
class and an adaptable parser.
Nic