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Here's a reply from one of the mew developers.

Chris

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On 01 Jun 2002, Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@iris.ne.jp> wrote: 

> In message [mew-int 00881], on Fri, 31 May 2002,
> Chris Beggy <chrisb@kippona.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jesper Harder copied me on this.  I'd like to make mew users and
> > developers aware of this IBM patent.
> 
> > >> <http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=061706.APN.&OS=apn/061706&RS=APN/061706>
> > >>
> > >> Does anybody know how long Mew has had this feature?  Maybe it's prior
> > >> art.
> 
> On June 7, 1996, Mew 1.06 (ftp://ftp.mew.org/pub/Mew/old/mew-1.06.tar.gz)
> was released under the GNU GPL version 2.  It has the refile-guess feature.
> (Maybe Mew 0.x (on 1994) supports this feature already.)
> 
> IBM's patent was filed on April 17, 1998.
> 
> So Mew's one is prior art, I think.
> 
> > Also, I'll correct him on the nature of mew's license.
> 
> Mew's license was changed from the GNU GPL to the BSD style license.
> 
> Mew 1.93pre1 or later version is released under the modified
> BSD style license.  It doesn't have the advertising clause.  So
> it's compatible with the GNU GPL.
> 
> -- 
> Tatsuya Kinoshita