VDQ Apache license : hope for Alpine??

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http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ announces :

> In late 2005, Computing & Communications at the University of Washington
> began a project to create a new family of email tools built upon the
> Pine® Message System. This family of tools is called Alpine. Alpine
> consists of a UNIX command-line program, a PC version, and a Web version.

> Alpine will be licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

> The target date for the release of Alpine is October 1, 2006.

IANAL, nor a programmer, and can't tell whether things that sound very
similar to me are functionally equivalent; hence the following Very Dumb
Question, even having followed the link from the above to 

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

and tried to read the prose there -- i.e., and to wit : Does this news
mean that Fedora will be able to start including Alpine, as RedHat used to
include Pine?

It would be *very* nice to be able use yum to install and update something
which (I admit I'm guessing) would be as like Pine as one pea to another
in its pod -- and maybe even have it included in the ISOs and media in the
first place. Pine, even more than Opera, is one app without which I'd lose
interest in the whole Net in a hurry. I can get both, and have been doing
for years, with downloads, rpm commands, and occasional yum install
commands to fill dependencies; I'll go on if I have to, for as long as
necessary. *If* I have to -- will we continue to have to, or is there hope?

-- 
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Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.


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