Re: getmail and Fedora 32

Archlinux and Slackware have also dumped python2 and Slackware did that
a few months ago.

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 19:31:53
> From: Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: getmail and Fedora 32
>
> Martin Gregorie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2020-08-22 at 23:07 +0200, Stefan Krah wrote:
> > >
> > > Is this { getmail 6.03 } released with the approval of Charles?  Otherwise
> > > it seems a bit like a hostile takeover:
> >
> > The the best of my knowledge, yes.
> >
> > In a recent post he wrote that he'd handed over a clean copy of his latest
> > release to the getmail 6 developers and that 6.03 is a conversion to Python
> > 3 with as little functional change as possible.
>
> The above isn't totally clear to me - whether "yes" was meant as my
> cooperation, and where "he" refers to me handing over a copy of the code...
>
> To be clear, I have nothing to do with "getmail6"; it's a fork.  As long as
> they abide by the terms of the license (GPL v2 only), that fork is allowed.
> Whoever's behind it has never contacted me; I only found out about it from
> other mentions in my mailing list.
>
> Charles
>

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