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Pine is a Freeware Text-based E-mail Client developed at the University Of Washington . SUPPORTED PLATFORMS There are both Unix and Windows versions of Pine. The Unix version is Text User Interface based—its message editor inspired the text editor Pico . The Windows (and formerly DOS) version is called PC-Pine. '''WebPine''' is available to individuals associated with the university (students, Faculty , etc.)—a version of Pine implemented as a Web application. ACRONYM Many people believe that Pine stood for "Pine is not Elm ." However, one of its original authors, Laurence Lundblade , insists this was never the case and that it started off simply as a word and not an acronym, and that his first choice of a Backronym for pine would be "Pine Is Nearly Elm". Over time it was changed by the university to mean ''Program for Internet News and E-mail''.1 LICENSING AND CLONES Up to version 3.9.1, the Pine license was similar to BSD , and it stated that Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of Washington is hereby granted... The University did, however, register a Trademark for the name Pine. From version 3.9.2, the holder of the copyright, the University of Washington, changed the license so that even if the source code was still available, they did ''not'' allow modifications and changes to Pine be distributed by other than themselves. They also claimed that even the old license never allowed distribution of modified versions. 2 The trademark for the Pine name was part of their position in this matter.3 As a reaction, some developers Forked version 3.9.1 under the name MANA (for ''Mail And News Agent'') to avoid the trademark issue and the GNU Project adopted it as GNU Mana. Richard Stallman claims that the University of Washington threatened4 to sue the Free Software Foundation for distributing modified Pine, resulting in the development of MANA ceasing and no versions were released5 6 The University of Washington later modified their license somewhat to allow unmodified distribution of Pine alongside collections of Free Software , but the license still does not conform to the Open Source and the Free Software Guidelines. ALPINE |
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