[sylpheed:35179] Re: IMAP4 with GSSAPI authentication

Paul claws at thewildbeast.co.uk
Wed Mar 21 16:20:56 JST 2012


On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:50:20 +1100
Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools at mega-nerd.com> wrote: 

> If I port the GSSAPI implementation from claws-mail into sylpheed,
> would that be accepted as a patch?

You can't do that, you would be breaking the license terms of Claws
Mail - it is GPLv3 whereas Sylpheed is GPLv2, so legally speaking,
Claws code cannot be used in Sylpheed.

OTOH, you could investigate and fix, or at least report, those bugs
you'd found in Claws :)

with regards

Paul


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