Even gpl3 has nothing to do with software as a service, so I was wrong. On 7/5/07, Riaan Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/07/07, Michael Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking at the recent amavisd-new presentation by the author and > > slide four says that amavisd-new is GPL. If it is GPL that would bring > > many many installations out of license compliance, especially in > > commercial products and email filtering services, that have heavily > > customized amavisd-new without submitting their changes to the > > community. I thought that it had a BSD license which allows unlimited > > changes without change submissions, rather than GPL which requires that > > changes be submitted back to the community and forbids use in commercial > > products that don't supply all source code. > > > > Mike Katz > > http://messagepartners.com > > > > Mike, > > IANAL, but I don't think that's what the GPL means. I think it means > that IF a company distributes a product containing modified GPL > components, they are required to provide the source to those modified > components upon request (and publicly state their willingness to do > so), and only by not doing either would be violating the GPL. It does > not mean that you've got to submit all your modifications "back to the > community", because > (a) the poor community would be swamped with diffs by people who > modify not for any other purpose but to get amavisd-new to fit a mold > they can't otherwise change. > (b) this FAQ says so: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic > > So, if I'm reading this right, only a company selling an email > filtering appliance containing a modified copy of amavisd-new need > worry. > > regards, > Riaan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > AMaViS-user mailing list > AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user > AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 > AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/ >
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