[mew-int 00883] Re: mew + gnus + namazu

[Tatsuya Kinoshita]

In message [mew-int 00881], on Fri, 31 May 2002,
Chris Beggy <chrisb at example.com> wrote:

> Jesper Harder copied me on this.  I'd like to make mew users and
> developers aware of this IBM patent.

> >> <http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=061706.APN.&OS=apn/061706&RS=APN/061706>
> >>
> >> Does anybody know how long Mew has had this feature?  Maybe it's prior
> >> art.

On June 7, 1996, Mew 1.06 (ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/Mew/old/mew-1.06.tar.gz)
was released under the GNU GPL version 2.  It has the refile-guess feature.
(Maybe Mew 0.x (on 1994) supports this feature already.)

IBM's patent was filed on April 17, 1998.

So Mew's one is prior art, I think.

> Also, I'll correct him on the nature of mew's license.

Mew's license was changed from the GNU GPL to the BSD style license.

Mew 1.93pre1 or later version is released under the modified
BSD style license.  It doesn't have the advertising clause.  So
it's compatible with the GNU GPL.

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita