pgp/mime vs in-line pgp

darren chamberlain dlc at sevenroot.org
Wed Apr 14 16:51:51 CEST 2004


* Len Sassaman <rabbi at abditum.com> [2004/04/13 19:41]:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Bjoern Buerger wrote:
> 
> > > now to convince the pine team at UW to implement such a simple
> > > thing!
> >
> > Since _you_ want to use pine, it would be up to _you_ to do that. If
> > they don't plan to implement it themselves, best thing would be to
> > send them patches.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Pine is under a "non-free" license,
> and the Pine authors have repeatedly rejected such patches. They have
> no interest in OpenPGP support, period.

Sounds like a pretty good reason for a security- and privacy-conscious
user to switch to something else...

(darren)

-- 
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
    -- Leo Tolstoy
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