Handheld Usenet Newsreader Updated
SonLight Software has released a new version of Yanoff (v2.1), the portable news reader for Palm OS. The software connects to the hundreds of thousands of Usenet user-groups and discussions.
Yanoff is an online/offline Usenet NNTP news reader for palmOne and Palm OS compatible PDA's. New Yanoff is offered in two versions: Yanoff- and Yanoff+.
Yanoff- is the freeware version which features:
- Full compatibility with OS4 and OS5 (Garnet)
- Multiple download methods (e.g. Batch-Header with Body-on-Demand)
- Outgoing support for news (NNTP) and simple email (SMTP)
- Context-sensitive, user-definable buttons
- Multiple-server support
- Essential MIME support
- Event (e.g. error) and port logging (allows for uninterrupted polling)
- Global Find support
- Audible feedback/alerts
Yanoff+ is the advanced commercial version which contains everything found in Yanoff- plus much more, including:
- Authenticated login support for SMTP
- Killfile and other Anti-SPAM functions
- Thread caching for radical speed increases in article threading
- Progress dialogs and cancel/defer/resume ability for long operations
- ROT13 and ReverseText
- Multiple fonts
- SentBox option
Yanoff+ can be operated in trialware mode for 15 days after which it locks down to the Yanoff- feature set. Users can purchase an unlock key or $24.00 (USD) which restores the locked features of expired Yanoff+. It works with Palm OS 3.5 and higher.
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No thanks
As far as I am concerned, the jury is still out whether PP is spyware. Of course, the application authors swear up and down that it isn't, but that is hardly of much comfort these days. At the very least, it is annoying marketing push-ware... an extra piece of software you have to keep on your device and whose only benefit is to the seller. From what I understand, each and every time you sync, it calls home to sniff out whether or not there is a new "offer" it wants to show you, and then pops it up on your screen, whether you like it or not.
RE: No thanks
Together with the questionable GPL license of Yanoff and its bundling of PocketPurchase, Yanoff+ is really something that is worrying...
I hope the staff from Yanoff+ can clear this up.
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RE: No thanks
I'm sorry but I simply will not purchase software which calls home, for whatever reason. Sellers will say it is for my own good. I can't say on a public forum what my response to them would be.
Obviously, I feel very strongly about this. Probably much more so than most folks. You pays your money and you makes your choice.
RE: No thanks
> update until they remove PocketPurchase from
> the application
If you look at the website, that's exactly what they've done with version 2.1 - the downloads include a version with PocketPurchase and a version without. The version without PocketPurchase works fine - both unregistered and registered.
GPL License?
Once a software has become GPL, is it legal to convert it to a closed-source project? I suppose some of the codes in the original Yanoff may have come from the open-source world. I don't think anyone (including the orignal author of the GPL software) has the rights to take ownership of the codes and change it to a closed-source project. Is it the case?
If any software is built on GPL software, any user can request the source codes of the software, including its changes to the GPL software. Why Yanoff could be an exception?
Maybe I don't understand the GPL license correctly. Any comment?
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RE: GPL License?
I don't know the history here, but I believe the new author bought out the original author including all rights, so he can legally do as he sees fit. Hes also including the free versoin as well.
jeff
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RE: GPL License?
So that means anyone could release a GPL software and after getting enough contributions from the open-source world, the original author of the software could then take ownership of those public contributions and sell it to other.
True?
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RE: GPL License?
Several things though.
1) GPL does not prevent selling something; it just means it must include source available when sold. See 995soft.com who essentially resells GPL works, and includees source and support.
2) Remember, if author Bob makes a tool and releases as GPL, you now have two things -- i) he can do what he wishes with his code, and ii) Everyeone else has GPL of that code. If user Jane then modifies it, those modifications must also be GPL, and rememebr the relationship.. Jane's particular mods are her own, and relased as GPL, so the original author Bob has to honour Jane's code as GPL.. it is not his.
So when an author releases his work as GPL, he has original rights toll his work, but must treat donated work as GPL, and so he must release that code with all his own changes.
So I guess the question with Yanoff is .. if no one else donated code, no problem; if anyone did donate code, then the new author would have to have rights to all that code (From those authors) to keep it in his now closed source work.
Complex, but interesting nonetheless :)
jeff
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RE: GPL License?
(i) if Bob releases his code (the "Original Code") under the GPL, Bob is perfectly free at any subsequent time to re-release the Original Code under another licence (e.g. closed source), sell it to someone else, etc;
(ii) if Jane modifies the Original Code, the modifications automatically come under the GPL and neither Bob nor Jane nor anyone else can licence the modifications under a licence other than the GPL; but
(iii) notwithstanding Jane's modifications, Bob is perfectly free at any subsequent time to re-release ONLY the Original Code (i.e. not including Jane's modifications) under another licence (e.g. closed source), sell it to someone else, etc.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong!
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good article Ryan!
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