[sylpheed:35180] Re: IMAP4 with GSSAPI authentication

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+tools at mega-nerd.com
Wed Mar 21 19:39:12 JST 2012


Paul wrote:

> 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.

Two possibilites:

   - Sylpheed becomes dual GPLv2 / GPLv3 licensed.

   - I clean room re-implement the GSSAPI code.

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

Considering the number of bugs I found in the 60 or so seconds I was
playing with claws, I suspect that a clean room re-implementation of
GSSAPI authentication would be far less time consuming.

Erik
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