Hello David, On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 05:51:46PM -0800, David Champion wrote: > * On 29 Jan 2016, martin f krafft wrote: > > > > It's a shame to hear that Karel doesn't do his work within the > > community. mutt-kz is a nice piece of work and why not provide an > > officially experimental mutt? > > I wonder, too, why he works entirely separately. I wish he were feeding > back to the community but he seems more interested in maintaining a > separate fork, and letting us worry about following/backporting his > work.
It is not a shame. It is a feaute. Mutt is published and distributed by the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, which means there can be 100 forks, not just one, for any purpose, by anyone and that shall not be invalidated anyhow. Software produced under this license is freely available and any source code could be merged and used in the original Mutt. So, whoever is producing the fork, DOES work with the community within the scope of the GNU GPL. Rosario
