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task #7673: Submission of tpop3d

Submitter:  Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Submitted:  Sat 12 Jan 2008 08:43:53 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 11 Jan 2008 11:00:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Mon 21 Jan 2008 11:00:00 PM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Cancelled Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  alexshulgin Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sat 29 Mar 2008 06:57:43 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Hi,

As far as I can see, in his first comment, Alex asked you to resubmit the project, and marked it as 'cancelled'.
https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?7673#comment1

Please resubmit it and, since everything is fine, we could approve it fast. It would be a good idea to link to this page too.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Fri 28 Mar 2008 04:05:03 PM UTC, comment #6: 

So what now? Can this project be approved then (since openssl is fully optional) ?

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Mon 11 Feb 2008 07:11:41 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply, Alex has troubles connecting to the net at the moment and could not answer you.

It seems to me that your licensing scheme is consistent if all dependencies are indeed completely optional, and if incompatible libs are not built in a single executable. I'm not a lawyer though.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sun 27 Jan 2008 08:45:20 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Is this a problem even if openssl dependency is optional? (+ all other mentioned dependencies are optional)

You can still build tpop3d without openssl or with openssl but without other gpl deps.

You can't just mix openssl and other gpl deps as I understand.

Adding GnuTLS support of course is another matter which can be done additionally.

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Sat 26 Jan 2008 07:50:07 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi,

Unfortunately, adding copying exception for OpenSSL is not enough in this case because of other GPL'd dependencies your project has--redistribution will violate their copying conditions.

We recommend using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL to resolve this issue.

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Cheers,
Alex

Alexander Shulgin <alexshulgin>
Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:06:49 AM UTC, comment #2: 

http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/tpop3d-new-20080122.tar.gz

- fixed file headers that now explictly mention main licensee in each file. Dropped "All rights reserved" since it's GPL project.
- added openssl exception to licensee.

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>
Tue 22 Jan 2008 09:10:19 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Arkadiusz,

Unfortunately, I cannot approve your project at this time.

Please resubmit it while reading carefully links provided near the checklist items "All my files include valid copyright notices", "All my files include a license header".  Also, note that the line "All rights reserved" is inappropriate for permissive licensing--it means no one but the author can do anything to the file.

There is a problem with using OpenSSL in GPL'd projects even as optional dependency, for more details please see a similar case: https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=7641

I'm closing your submission.  However, feel free to ask more questions in this item.

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Cheers,
Alex

Alexander Shulgin <alexshulgin>
Sat 12 Jan 2008 08:43:53 PM UTC, original submission:  

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  • Name: tpop3d
  • System Name:  tpop3d
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later





Description:

tpop3d is a fast, extensible, secure UNIX POP3 server. `Extensible' is used specifically in the context of new authentication mechanisms. Presently the distribution contains auth-pam, which uses Linux-style Pluggable Authentication Modules to mediate access of registered users of a machine to their Unix-style mailboxes, auth-passwd for older Unix machines, and auth-mysql, which works with vmail-sql or other MySQL-based solutions to mediate access to virtual-domain email. auth-pgsql supplies similar functionality for PostgreSQL. auth-ldap allows authentication of users against an LDAP directory, and auth-flatfile uses files in the format of /etc/passwd. In addition, there are two authenticators which are designed to allow easy implementation of new authentication schemes without writing C code: auth-other, which allows you to write an external program to communicate with tpop3d via pipes; and auth-perl, which allows you to embed a perl interpreter in tpop3d to authenticate users with custom perl code. tpop3d supports TLS/SSL for encrypted communications.

tpop3d makes POP-before-SMTP relaying easy, providing configurable hooks which allow you to insert rows into a database, or call custom code either running in an embedded perl interpeter or in an arbitrary external program whenever a user is authenticated. The same facilities can be used to implement POP3 server `bulletin' support. In addition, tpop3d can notify a DRAC (`dynamic relay authentication control') or WHOSON server of logins.

tpop3d supports traditional (BSD-format) mailspools and, thanks to the efforts of Paul Makepeace, the maildir format of qmail. Location and type of mailspools can be selected flexibly at run time using the configuration file. There is also experimental support for index caching to improve performance with BSD mailspools; this is in the latest version. Adding support for new mailbox formats would be simple.

tpop3d is portable to modern systems. It builds successfully `out of the box' on Linux, modern BSD systems, Solaris and Mac OS X. The GNU autoconf mechanism is used to configure and build tpop3d (thanks to Mark Longair for this contribution), so should also build on other reasonable Unix systems.

tpop3d is free software, available under the terms of the GNU GPL.


Other Software Required:

There is no required dependency. There are only optional dependencies:
gdbm, GPL
mysql, GPL, www.mysql.com
openldap, openldap public license, www.openldap.org
openssl, apache-style license, www.openssl.org
pam, gpl/bsd, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
postgresql, bsd, www.postgresql.org
whoson, public domain, http://whoson.sourceforge.net/



Tarball URL:

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.3.tar.gz


Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm>

 

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